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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

Cars That Think

After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. Fellow, 62; died 16 May.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

Creative Greenius

A beaming Alison Diaz, ECHS’ Founder and Executive Director was at the center of it all on the campus that started as an idea in her head and then in a church basement in 1999. And celebrate we did with some of the people I admire most in the community and who I’ve written about for the past few years. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk Participative leadership, where ideas are followed by action. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk Participative leadership, where ideas are followed by action. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Nissan Exploring Inductive Charging Capable of Power Transfer Over Longer Distances for its Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

Subsequently, GM suspended production of its Gen2+ MagneCharge units in 2002. Nissan has ambitions beyond mere wireless charging bays. Bott said he was sceptical that such charging lanes would be practical: “It’s scientifically feasible, but it’s whether it’s scalable and feasible is another matter.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. charger is also required, though ideally the existing motor controllers might be used as grid chargers.

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