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World’s Most Important Automakers Set Standard for EV Charging

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:28:31 +0000

A new agreement between the world’s most important automakers regarding the standardization of electric vehicle charging systems has been announced on Thursday. The new standard is meant to speed up charging and make it more safe. The new charging system will be on display at this year’s Electric Vehicle Symposium and has been adopted by […]

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Ultra-Fast DC Chargers to Expand Use of Electric Cars in Germany

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:30:20 +0000

Good news for German electric car users come from E.ON. The company will start building ultra-fast charging stations along the country’s motorways and will specialize only on DC chargers. Of course, the charging stations will be compatible with the CHAdeMO standard, and will be able to bear charges of up to 50 kW per vehicle, […]

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Toyota to Release Home-Based EV Charging Stations in 2012

Mike Sandru — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:39:47 +0000

Toyota Motor is planning to launch home battery chargers for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles by the end of 2012. According to the company, the chargers will be compatible with any type of EV and will come in two types. One would be for setting up in a garage and the other would protrude from the exterior wall of a home.

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Tesla Roadster Equipped With a Wireless Charging System Shown at CES 2011

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:04:59 +0000

The CES 2011 (Consumer Electronics Show) was the perfect scene for another stunning presentation: the first wirelessly powered Tesla car. Fulton Innovation, a company dedicated to ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œcreating technologies that not only affect the way devices interact with each other, but how cultures interact with their environmentÃƒÂ¢€ is behind the wireless technologies which made this possible. They are also the ones responsible for projects like Splashpower, eCoupled and Alkemi-Insights.

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IPT, The World's First Wireless Electric Car Charger Launched in UK

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:35:47 +0000

IPT (Induction Power Transfer) is the name of the world's first commercially-available wireless electric car charging system, just launched in London. The brainchild of UK start-up HaloIPT wishes to electrify the England's M25 motorway by using magnetic induction, a principle discovered in the 1800s.

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