Date: May 28, 2013 Source: Energy Storage Report (
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Ideal Power Converters (IPC) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to use IPC's patented Energy Packet Switching topology for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
The effort is aimed at creating new systems that may reduce construction and operating expenses related to charging infrastructure and accelerate deployment of fast-charging infrastructure and plug-in electric vehicles, IPC says.
The company has also this month won a US National Innovation Award for its 30kW 3-Port Hybrid Converter, which is expected to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of systems that integrate photovoltaic power, grid storage and electric vehicle charging.
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