Tritium receives US funding to make cheaper ultra-fast EV charger
Tritium receives US funding to make cheaper ultra-fast EV charger
Tritium will use $400,000 in US funding to develop a cheaper version of its Veefil-PK ultra-fast charger for electric vehicles (EVs).
The fund is part of the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) $3.2m package, issued by the US Department of Energy (DoE), to develop a fast charging system which will connect to the grid.
Once complete, the plug-in system is expected to reduce the impact on the grid and charge multiple EVs quickly.
Mark McGranaghan, EPRI vice president of integrated grid, says: “Our
September 14, 2018
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7335 Tritium will use $400,000 in US funding to develop a cheaper version of its Veefil-PK ultra-fast charger for electric vehicles (EVs).
The fund is part of the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) $3.2m package, issued by the US Department of Energy (DoE), to develop a fast charging system which will connect to the grid.
Once complete, the plug-in system is expected to reduce the impact on the grid and charge multiple EVs quickly.
Mark McGranaghan, EPRI vice president of integrated grid, says: “Our collaborative team will dig deeper into options for faster, flexible and more efficient vehicle charging, which could be key to maximising the impact and acceleration of electrifying fleets of vehicles.”
EPRI’s initiative is one of 42 projects which has received a combined a $80m investment from the %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external DoEfalsehttps://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-announces-80-million-investment-advanced-vehicle-technologies-researchfalsefalse%> to support advanced technologies research.
Tritium has opened two R&D electric mobility innovation centres in Australia and the Netherlands.
The Tritium e-mobility centre in Brisbane serves as an expansion of the company’s headquarters and will be used to develop disruptive technologies for electric vehicles (EVs).
A portion of Electric Power Research Institute's $3.2m package, issued by the US Department of Energy, will be used to develop an extreme fast-charging system which is expected to add 475km of range to an EV in 10 minutes.
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