fast charging Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:46:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 BMW i3 Owners Treated to Free Fast-Charging https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-i3-owners-treated-free-fast-charging-20140728/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-i3-owners-treated-free-fast-charging-20140728/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:46:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48706 BMW may not have been first, but the company has been working hard to increase awareness and adoption of electric vehicles, such as the new BMW i3. While many people may see only limitations when it comes to electric vehicles, automakers such as Tesla Motors, General Motors, and BMW are trying to turn that notion […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-i3-owners-treated-free-fast-charging-20140728/feed/ 0 48706 Electric Vehicle Charging Requires Significant Power Grid Upgrades https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-vehicle-charging-requires-significant-power-grid-upgrades-20130816/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-vehicle-charging-requires-significant-power-grid-upgrades-20130816/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:41:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40738 Last year, some 50,000 electric vehicles were sold, most of them in California. This is good news for the California air, but not so good news for the California power grid. Now, there is enough capacity to handle the additional load of charging electric vehicles, but not in individual neighborhoods. For example, a typical neighborhood […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-vehicle-charging-requires-significant-power-grid-upgrades-20130816/feed/ 10 40738 The Netherlands to Have World’s Most Dense EV Fast Charging Network through Fastned https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ev-fastned-20130709/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ev-fastned-20130709/#respond Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:03:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39089 Holland will be the first most populous country in Europe to benefit from fast charging. Although much slower than Tesla’s, these will be able to juice small EVs to full in up to 30 minutes. ABB has been selected by Fastned (a Dutch startup) to provide the fast chargers to some 200 EV charging stations […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ev-fastned-20130709/feed/ 0 39089 New Siemens Technology Recharges EV Batteries in Just Six Minutes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-edison-project-battery-20100102/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siemens-edison-project-battery-20100102/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:21:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6019 The new charging technology works by raising charging power to as much as 300 kW, so the batteries can be recharged on the go.

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