Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

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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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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.&#. This is the game-changer for our industry,” said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s president and chief executive. February 15, 2010.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. University of California. industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. deliver high power to a car or truck. California - San Diego, Moog Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The revised Recommended Practice will focus on PHEVs and be coordinated with both California Air Resources Board (CARB) and International Standardization Organization (ISO) standards. Noting that while it was far from ideal to have two major approaches, Kissel said the global automotive industry would work around it. J1772: Charging.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. Think has established a U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities ?

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