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

Cars That Think

And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, for instance, Nissan developed and marketed a vehicle-to-building (V2B) charging system that enabled its Leaf EV to provide backup power. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Masdar is a multi-billion dollar project to create a mile-square city in a desert environment where “ nothing grows ” today. Earlier post.)]. CAFE mpg US (cars / trucks).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

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