It’s just one of the many terms being added to our everyday language as electrification steers the energy transition on our roads and highways.
But with every technological advance come new challenges. How will power grids handle growing e- mobility pressure? Are there enough rapid charging stations to make a battery electric vehicle (EV) road trip stress-free?
electric cars on the road, worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency
this is a daunting challenge....
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Hydrogen are
It’s just one of the many terms being added to our everyday language as electrification steers the energy transition on our roads and highways.
But with every technological advance come new challenges. How will power grids handle growing e-mobility pressure? Are there enough rapid charging stations to make a battery electric vehicle (EV) road trip stress-free?
electric cars on the road, worldwide by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency
will be needed in Western Europe in the next decade in order to keep up. This is a duanting challenge...
One of Europe’s largest EV charging providers, NewMotion is helping fill this gap
Bought by Shell in 2017, the company is also exploring Vehicle-to-Grid tech for smart cities. Through this, EVs may share battery-stored electricity with grids, leveling peaks and valleys in power supply and demand. In return owners would receive fees.
Waiting periods present a chance for energy network operators to influence e- mobility culture through ‘forecourts of the future.’
Some of Tesla’s Supercharger stations feature a lounge, kids’ play zone and pet area, while others like eVcentres have plans for mini-gyms and meeting rooms in their charging hubs.
While three to eight hours charge time may seem long to on-the-go motorists, it suits the circumstances of users of home and business charging points, NewMotion’s specialty.
NewMotion’s offerings rounds out the Shell Recharge service, which has introduced rapid charging at some of its station forecourts in the UK.
An e top-up – which drivers pay for on the Smoov app – typically takes 30 minutes. In the meantime, they can enjoy free wi-fi and coffee.
One of Europe’s largest EV charging providers, NewMotion is helping fill this gap
While three to eight hours charge time may seem long to on-the-go motorists, it suits the circumstances of users of home and business charging points, NewMotion’s specialty.
While three to eight hours charge time may seem long to on-the-go motorists, it suits the circumstances of users of home and business charging points, NewMotion’s specialty.
NewMotion’s offerings rounds out the Shell Recharge service, which has introduced rapid charging at its some of its station forecourts in the UK.
An e top-up – which drivers pay for on the Smoov app – typically takes 30 minutes. In the meantime, they can enjoy free wi-fi and coffee.
Waiting periods present a chance for energy network operators to influence e- mobility culture through ‘forecourts of the future.’
Some of Tesla’s Supercharger stations feature a lounge, kids’ play zone and pet area, while others like eVcentres have plans for mini-gyms and meeting rooms in their charging hubs.
Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) tap into the universe’s most abundant element, hydrogen (H2). They can log up to 700 km (435 miles) on a full tank and be refueled in minutes. Best of all: they emit water vapor. Unlike EVs, which hold charge in batteries, FCEVs store hydrogen gas in their tanks.
Newer to the market, there were 6,500 H2 vehicles on the road globally at last count. Some automakers have been banking on them for decades. Among those, Toyota recently announced plans to ramp up mass production of its H2 vehicles while lowering costs
— boosting the sector with an economies of scale strategy.
Today, most hydrogen is made using natural gas but it can also be produced with electricity and draw from a growing number of renewable sources.
Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) tap into the universe’s most abundant element, hydrogen (H2). They can log up to 700 km (435 miles) on a full tank and be refueled in minutes. Best of all: they emit water vapor.
Unlike EVs, which hold charge in batteries, FCEVs store hydrogen gas in their tanks.
700 km on a full tank and you can
...best of all, they emit
Newer to the market, there were 6,500 H2 vehicles on the road globally at last count. Some automakers have been banking on them for decades. Among those, Toyota recently announced plans to ramp up mass production of its H2 vehicles while lowering costs
— boosting the sector with an economies of scale strategy.
Today, most hydrogen is made using natural gas but it can also be produced with electricity and draw from a growing number of renewable sources.
Shell is supporting the needed FCEV infrastructure through public and private sector collaborations. Working with ITM Power, it opened the UK’s premier H2 filling station in 2017, and in the following year, launched the first combined petrol/diesel/hydrogen
station — also in Britain. Shell’s joint venture with Daimler and others, partly backed by the German government, is aiming to open 400 hydrogen refueling stations in the nation by 2023.
Teaming up with Toyota, through a California Energy Commission grant, Shell plans to develop the first H2 truck refueling station in the Golden State’s Port of Long Beach. Hydrogen fuel cells are also a match for
heavy duty vehicles in particular, given their long-haul needs, enormous weights.
Currently in the development stage, heavy duty FCEVs have the potential to reduce emissions and cut costs in commercial shipping, logistics and construction.
Toyota is testing the latest version of its hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 truck in the real world around the Ports of Los Angeles, as well as Long Beach — the site of the automaker’s logistics center and future
home of Shell’s H2 refueling station.
Others like Nikola also have big plans. The motor company is set to test its hydrogen semi trucks in 2019.
These technologies will only make it as far as infrastructure will allow. But through collaboration — among non-industry players, governments and pioneering energy companies — tomorrow’s e-mobility landscape is taking
shape today.