GM Patents Dual Charging Port Tech With Huge Possibilities for EV Trucks
May 24, 2022 - GM's newly discovered patent shows a theoretical EV truck outfitted with not one, but two charging ports. One port allows 800V charging, while the other allows 400V charging.
Plug in one cord from one 350 kW charger and you're charging the whole pack, operating in series, at 800V. The secondary port is bidirectional, so you could also hook up another vehicle—say, an EV excavator with a smaller pack at a job site where chargers are limited.
Dual charge ports at high voltages could make electrification possible for vehicles whose sheer size or workload might preclude doing what the vehicle needs to do with a single charge port. Think about an EV semi, or an EV dump truck.
Electric Fleet Vehicles in Spotlight at ACT Expo 2022
By Richard Mohr, Vice President, Fleet Solutions at ChargePoint
At and around ACT, leading OEMs made announcements about their plans to electrify medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, including established industry players like Daimler and Volvo as well as upstarts like Xos and Zeus Electric.
On our side, we kept up strong momentum by engaging with visitors in our booth, speaking on a panel with other industry leaders and interviewing our customers about their electrification challenges and successes in preparation for helping fleets stay charged.
CMT Research Reveals Unique Risks for EVs
Cambridge Mobile Telematics Research into Electric Vehicle Risk Unveils Key Insights into Changes in Road Safety in an EV Future
New CMT research presented at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Conference shows that electric vehicles have unique risk factors from traditional vehicles
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, shared its new research findings into driving risk for electric, hybrid, and traditional vehicles in a keynote at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Charging Into an Electrified Future Conference.
The new research shows that drivers of electric vehicles exhibit acceleration risks ranging from 180% to 340% higher than when driving traditional combustion vehicles. The data for the research comes from millions of vehicles across the CMT DriveWell® Platform.
In the keynote, CMT answered the question of how this risk translates to safety and, ultimately, crash outcomes.
Survey: EV Price, Range Anxiety, Infrastructure Keep Car Shoppers Away
May 27, 2022 - Range anxiety no longer the top concern for EV shoppers, but comes in second, cited by 44 percent of the 1350 car shoppers Autolist surveyed.
While tax credits are available for some EV buyers, high up-front purchase prices are now the key hurdle for EV adoption in Autolist's findings. While EVs offer lower running and maintenance costs than gasoline vehicles, 28 percent of respondents said they were totally unwilling to pay more for an electric vehicle than a similar gasoline-powered vehicle.
Ford Testing Geofencing Tech That Cuts Vehicle Speeds
Ford is trialing a new geofencing system that alerts drivers of connected cars when they break the speed limit and automatically slows them down.
The driver receives the information via the dashboard display cluster, with the boundary’s speed limit flashing below the current speed. If necessary, the vehicle then automatically reduces the speed in line with the required limit of the geofenced zone.
In the future, Ford says the system could enable drivers to set their own geofencing zones at speeds as low as 12 mph, at workplaces, such as depots, and private facilities. Speed limits could also be set dynamically, to take into account local hazards, temporary road works and the time of day.
via IoT Today
