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Riz Akhtar
Riz Akhtar

Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.

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Drive on sunshine: Tesla app to allows owners to charge on excess solar

  • March 17, 2023
  • Riz Akhtar
Tesla is planning to help owners “Drive on Sunshine" with their excess solar production in the next app update.
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Smart charging vital for EVs to rely on solar, says Swiss study

  • January 13, 2022
  • Joshua S. Hill
Charging electric vehicles with residential rooftop solar only is well within realm of plausibility, according to new Swiss study. But how it's done will be key.
Source: Hyundai Home
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Hyundai launches one stop shop for EV charger, solar and battery

  • November 23, 2021
  • Bridie Schmidt
US homeowners will be able to buy entire home energy packages from new "Hyundai Home" website in 2022, and local arm says it would work well in this market.
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UNSW solar technology powers six-bay EV station on Sydney rooftop

  • September 17, 2021
  • Sophie Vorrath
UNSW has installed six EV chargers on the rooftop of a Sydney car park, powered by School of Photovoltaic designed solar panels.
Khuloud Suhool, General Superintendent Prozesskontrolle, Emirates Global Aluminium
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Green metals: BMW begins sourcing aluminium produced using solar

  • February 10, 2021
  • Joshua S. Hill
BMW is sourcing aluminium produced using power generated by the 1GW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the UAE.
Cathcart's BMW i3 and rooftop solar system. Courtesy Chris Cathcart
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How much do EVs reduce emissions? It depends when you charge

  • December 21, 2020
  • Bridie Schmidt
How much can electric cars actually reduce emissions? It depends on when and where you charge.
Mundrabilla Roadhouse – Nullabor Plain
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Why are there no off-grid electric vehicle charging stations?

  • October 21, 2020
  • Rob Dean
Why is off-grid EV charging is not being built? The answer is more to do with demand than the technology.
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Solar inverter trial shows massive $7,000 savings driving on sunshine

  • March 31, 2020
  • Bridie Schmidt
Six-month trial using new two-in-one solar inverter and EV charger shows potential massive savings to be had from driving on sunshine.
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CSIRO smart solar EV charging technology put to test in Victoria

  • October 10, 2019
  • Sophie Vorrath
Victoria government backed project will trial CSIRO EV charging technology that maximises the use of rooftop solar generation, and minimises demand from the grid.
Credit: Bridie Schmidt
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Is there a DC car charger I can use with a DC solar panel system?

  • April 15, 2019
  • One comment
  • Bryce Gaton
Can one avoid converting to AC and then have a charging system convert back to DC?

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