Posts Tagged: electric vehicle charging
August 20, 2018
How utilities can encourage electric vehicle adoption in their territory
Falling demand for electricity threatens utilities Since steam ceded its position as the main provider of mechanical power to electricity in the early 1900s, there has been one stable relationship; as a country’s output and economy has grown, so too has its consumption of electricity. Thanks to the electrification of factories, by the 1920s, American manufacturing productivity soared to far greater heights than ever[…]
August 1, 2018
The facts about electric vehicles
High prices. Toxic batteries. Terrible range. The world is full of alarming stories about why electric vehicles are bad. But the reality is very different. It’s easy to understand why people have these misconceptions. This is a new technology, one that the public is only just learning about. That makes people vulnerable to the exaggerations of companies that don’t want to have to change.[…]
July 18, 2018
Will Additional Public Charging Infrastructure Improve EV Adoption?
On the surface, it seems like a strange question to ask; surely more charging infrastructure increases the chance for electric vehicles (EVs) to thrive. There appears to be a fascination of expanding the number of public charging stations that can charge at rapid rates as investment continues to pour into public infrastructure projects. The question this article asks is whether the public infrastructure is[…]
June 27, 2018
The importance of effective electric vehicle charging management
Electric vehicles are better technology than current ICE vehicles and have the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of pollution from fossil fuels. Despite the fact that electric vehicles may not emit carbon dioxide and other noxious gases when in use, they do present another problem. Demand on the electrical grid. The average electric car uses roughly ten kWh (kilowatt hours) for every fifty to[…]
June 6, 2018
Are EV fleets the answer to controllable loads and grid efficiency?
The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is set to grow exponentially. Primarily driven by the reduction in cost compared to the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) counterparts and generous government incentives to encourage users to switch to EVs. However, increasing the EV fleet puts pressure on global electricity demand. EVs operate via a battery that requires electricity to run. Therefore, the more EVs on the[…]
May 30, 2018
How soon is wireless electric vehicle charging coming?
Wireless vehicle charging is one of the many cutting-edge technologies that is being fiercely developed and it could be a game changer for the electric car industry. It’s estimated that by 2040 up to 50% of new car sales will be electric vehicles. Consequently, the demand for revolutionary technologies like wireless electric vehicle charging will grow. What is wireless electric vehicle charging? The technology[…]
May 2, 2018
Energy market schemes – how utilities make money from trading electricity
In the past, electric utilities were what economist would call natural monopolies, dominating all parts of the value chain from electricity production to retail supply. Energy service providers buy from a third party and sell electricity to individual households. While, energy marketers trade future contracts that enable power-hungry businesses to secure power at a fixed price, all of which has supported strong utility balance[…]
April 18, 2018
Are you charging your EV with clean or dirty energy?
It feels like the long tailpipe argument never goes away. Simply put, full life-cycle emissions of electric vehicles (EVs) are no different to that of a conventional vehicle. But, this is no longer the case. Fresh research tells us that 75 percent of people in the US live in places where driving on electricity is cleaner than a 50 MPG gasoline car. In the[…]
April 17, 2018
Top apps and websites to find EV charging stations
We know that the majority of EV charging happens at home or work. But where do you charge when those places aren’t an option? Gas stations are easy to find and pretty much always front and center. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case for the majority of EV charging stations. Many EV drivers turn to their favorite apps or websites to plan their route or[…]
March 28, 2018
How EV Batteries Work and Developments to Come
You may own an electric vehicle (EV) but, do you know how the battery technology works? And, how they differ from an internal combustion engine vehicle? In this article, we focus on how an EV battery operates, the types of EV batteries available on the market today, and, what battery innovation we may see in the future. The first thing is to distinguish between[…]
