Category: Electrification
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Almost a decade ago, a standards organization known mostly for developing technology to charge your phone without cables released a short white paper outlining their plans to use wireless charging to reduce the tangle of cords accumulating on our kitchen countertops. At the time, the diversification into kitchen tech by a standards body focused up…
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While we’ve all become accustomed to battery-powered vehicles transporting us around town, the idea of battery-powered appliances is still a relatively new concept to most consumers. But slowly but surely, startups making appliances with batteries built-in are jumping through the necessary hoops to bring these products to market in mainstream channels that will expose them…
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Impulse Labs announced an interesting move this week just ahead of the big KBIS trade show next week, unveiling a modular power electronics platform designed to bring battery technology to a variety of home appliances. As part of the announcement, Impulse announced a strategic partnership with THOR Kitchen, the first of what the company hopes…
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If you’re like me, you’ve considered installing a giant home battery to help transition away from traditional grid-connected power. And if you’re also like me, you haven’t done it because it’s expensive, and there’s a lot of housework you need to do to make it happen. But what if you could put together a home…
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This week, news of a new home electrification startup hit the wires. Founded by former Google Ventures partner Rick Klau, Onsemble builds technology to convert electric water heaters into what the energy industry calls a virtual power plant (VPP). VPPs act as aggregators and coordinate between independent distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar…
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