You want to do what with my EV? Turning cars into batteries on wheels
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Vehicle-to-grid technology can turn electric cars into energy sources when the owners are not using them. EV industry researcher, Kat Lucas-Healey asks if the system is as good in reality as it sounds on paper
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New community campaign to push for the electrification of transport in Australia
Australia’s newest grassroots campaign, Charge Ahead, will urge policymakers to accelerate the nationwide electrification of cars, buses, trucks and trains in order to reduce transport emissions.
Newcastle’s SwitchDin carves out its place in energy management market
In seven years, SwitchDin has grown to around 40 staff, most of which are based in Newcastle.
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Digital technologies and avoiding complacency: Warnings Australia should heed from the Miami building collapse
The devastating collapse of the Champlain Towers South condos in Miami has triggered alarm bells for Australia’s construction and property sectors. Here’s what we can learn.
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Tim Williams: How communities can cope, and grow, from major occupational upheavals
The coming workplace upheavals, brought by automation and accelerated by Covid, will challenge not just the “hands-on” professions but an increasingly under-employed and un-protected segment of knowledge workers too. Looking back on East London in the 90s, and the scaling back of production at Dagenham’s Ford factory, Tim Williams finds communities can in fact benefit […]
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On holograms cities, media messaging & climate action plans
Covid or no Covid Sydney has now lost a third of its workforce to the home as workers and bosses realise that the sky does not fall in when we work away from the office.
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