Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
Today, chip shortages continue to disrupt the consumer electronics, automobile, and other sectors. That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. We think there’s a better way.
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 13, 2008
News of oil by the barrel and gas by the gallon reaching new highs had been dominating TV and print, so it was perhaps not surprising that the Google/Brookings Plug-in Electric Vehicle Conference saw overflow crowds. The state of the grid was discussed by advocates and utility executives. Tags: plug-in conference.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2012
In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2010
In a talk at the opening plenary of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference in Washington, DC, former New York Governor George Pataki called for a 40% market penetration of electric drive vehicles in the US by the end of the decade. We need an interactive grid to make this work.
Charged EVs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
But I also know that, if you look back at the history of gas, when automobiles first started out in the early teens, they sold gas at hardware stores and grocery stores and pharmacies and things like that. The anti-EV crowd is fond of saying that EVs are going to “crash the grid.” We need to be in the energy business.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2011
It could even allow for integrating cars into intelligent power grids for optimizing power supply and demand. That would be a new step forward in fulfilling the traditional Toyota commitment to contribute to society through quality automobiles. —Takeshi Uchiyamada , Executive Vice President, Toyota Motor Corporation.
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