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

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AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Photos First drive: Chevy Volt test A few laps behind the wheel of an early version of GMs electric car shows the strengths - and possible weaknesses - of the technology. Answer a few questions and get graded on your money skills.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

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The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. Li Lu has agreed to come to FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference next week to talk about BYD. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion.

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