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GE and Nissan Get Into Smart Charging

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For more information, read the article: GE, Nissan team on smart charging for electric cars. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: GE, Nissan team on smart charging for electric cars. smart-grid lab for three years. and Japan by the end of the year. by Martin LaMonica. Credit: GE).

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. For these green products to be competitive, the sites will have to offer low power-generation costs and will have to produce power at near-full capacity much of the time.

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Cash for Volts?

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Here’s the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Updated to attribute projection on “smart-grid&# earnings to FERC Chairman.). The group notes that Japan and the European Union already offer large financial incentives to spur electric vehicle purchases. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET.

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The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

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EV owners should be urged to charge at night to save not only money and the power grid but “ the world ,” a news headline cries out. Not so fast, exclaim researchers at Stanford University, who state that charging EVs during the day is actually cheaper, better for the grid, and healthier for the environment.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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For that, we expect to increase the distance covered and the amount of power delivered. But we’re not alone: Other governments, established companies, and startups around the world are working to develop their own power-beaming systems. This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Spooky Power at a Distance.”.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

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From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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What are Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles? Will They Replace BEVs?

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There is currently no hydrogen fuel station in India but countries such as Japan, China, the United States of America, Korea on the other hand, have begun to embrace the idea of a hydrogen-based society. According to Capgemini research, four 150KW charging stations can be erected for a total cost of €596,000.