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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

Cars That Think

The award was “a welcome surprise,” he says, though “we thought the document turned out very well.” These issues required a reevaluation of how we had defined and classified stability in 2004,” Vittal says. Working with young people recharges my batteries.” In 2019 he was named a regents professor, the highest faculty position.

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Air Line Pilots Association Calls for Temporary Ban on Li-ion and Li-metal Battery Shipments on Airliners

Green Car Congress

The incidents involved e-cigarettes, each containing a rechargeable Li-ion battery; Li-ion cell phone batteries; and a Li-ion pack for an electric bicycle. In that accident, the fire was severe and it prompted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to recommend the full regulation of these types of batteries as dangerous goods.

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SAE Hybrid Standards Committee: Works In Progress For 2009

Green Car Congress

J1711 was first approved in 1999, expiring in 2004, and had relatively little validation with plug-in hybrid vehicles. J2464 (Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Safety And Abuse Testing), which is a. The standard, which is based on a similar document developed by the US.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The battery can be recharged by plugging the car into any electrical socket and allows the Prius to run entirely on electricity for speeds up to 34 miles per hour. They claimed the vehicles weren’t popular with most consumers because the car’s battery had a limited range of 60 to 100 miles before having to be recharged.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Joint Venture with Saab and others to research PHEVs.

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