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Good to see the EU tackling the really big problems.
Excellent work, @…! Do fries next, you muppets. https://indieweb.social/@jbz/115384438…

An interesting visualisation showing all public EV charging prices (operator/card combinations) in 🇱🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪.
Few EV charging networks beat diesel, the vast majority are more expensive. Paid subscriptions don't help much and typically limit EV users' options by locking them into one network.

A profile of Far Out, a UK-based digital culture magazine that grew from a student blog in 2010 to ~30 full-time staff, with 20M monthly page views on average (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/how-far-out-grew-…

How Far Out grew from student blog to 30 full-time staff
Far Out founder Lee Thomas says the online culture site averages 20 million page views a month and maintains traffic through Google Discover.

Leserbrief:
„Von Prince lernen, heißt siegen lernen. Ich freue mich schon jetzt auf: „The product formerly known as Veggie Burger“ im Kühlregal.“
https://www.taz.de/!6116584
Andererseits könnte die eggiewurst wirklich einfach Hans heißen.

"Der "Brätling" der Veggie-Burger enthält meist Hülsenfrüchte wie Linsen, Bohnen oder Kichererbsen sowie Nüsse, Pilze oder Soja, Haferflocken oder Leinmehl.
Also so grünes Zeug. Das ist natürlich jemandem, dessen bevorzugte Nahrung auf Vollspaltenböden im Stall gewachsen ist, nicht zuzumuten. Die Europäische Volkspartei (EVP) traut den Fleischfreunden nicht zu, den Unterschied zu erkennen."

Vandaag sprak ik met Maarten Hachmang van LaadpasTop10 voor zijn podcast. Wat komt er kijken bij laden? Wanneer komt V2G nu eens beschikbaar? Dat en andere onderwerpen bespraken we in deze EV-episode.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/70WGMDsOH65VR5Htx6IYUN

De diepte in met Jaap Burger
LaadpasTop10 · Episode

Een rechtse Eerste Kamer kiest de linkse Mei Li Vos als voorzitter – en vooral BBB heeft het nakijken - #NRC
#NLpol

Important decision for #V2G in Germany: parliament approves a legislative amendment that exempts electricity stored and supplied by bidirectional charging cars from energy tax and network costs. This makes the business case viable (and equivalent to large stationary batteries).

Bund ebnet Weg für bidirektionales Laden - electrive.net
Der Bundestag hat überraschend eine wichtige Entscheidung zur bisherigen Mehrfach-Belastung von Strom beim bidirektionalen Laden getroffen. Die Netzentgelte

Fascinating results from modelling different charging strategies (dumb, smart, #V2G) for 15 million BEVs in Germany in 2030, this research by Adeline Guéret, Carlos Gaete-Morales and @….
At 50% V2G, the system costs are lower than in the situation without EVs.

A moderate share of V2G outperforms large-scale smart charging of electric vehicles and benefits other consumers
While battery electric vehicles (BEVs) play a key role for decarbonizing the transport sector, their impact on the power sector heavily depends on their charging strategies. Here we systematically analyze various combinations between inflexible, smart and bidirectional (or vehicle-to-grid, V2G) charging of 15 million electric cars in Germany. Using a capacity expansion model, we find that even a moderate share of bidirectional charging below 30% leads to lower system costs than a fully smartly …

Now that more details are known about the three #V2G propositions (🇩🇪 BMW/E.ON, 🇫🇷 Mobilize/Renault/Mobility House, 🇬🇧 Octopus) currently available or announced in Europe, it is time to compare them.
All three aim to enable the average user to drive for free with an annual mileage of 11,000–14,000 km