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Future GM C-Max Rival, Fiskers in 2015, Workplace Charging For Electric Cars: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: New Fisker Karma plug-in hybrids may arrive by 2015, why workplace electric-car charging matters, and Oklahoma adds a fee for homes that connect green energy sources to the grid. All this and more on Green Car Reports. GM may be.'

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SAE taskforce J2954 on wireless charging and positioning standards looking to have final draft of guideline this year; significant industry involvement

Green Car Congress

The objective of the taskforce is initially to create a guideline for demonstration projects and design verification and later standardize in 2015 with field confirmation. Auto OEMs participating include Audi; BMW; Chrysler; Coda; Daimler; Fisker; Ford; GM; Honda; Mitsubishi; Nissan; Phoenix; and Toyota.

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PHEV Energy Bill

Plug In Partners

Authorizes $5 million per year 2009-2018 Stationary Energy Storage Demonstrations Directs DOE to carry out program of advanced energy storage demonstrations of integration with “self-healing grid , integration with renewable energy sources , optimization of transmission and distribution, peak load management, feasibility of microgrids or islanding.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

roads by 2015? The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Fisker Automotive. Fisker Automotive. Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Fisker Automotive. Five million.

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