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

Cars That Think

And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Lead organization. University of California. deliver high power to a car or truck. California - San Diego, Moog Inc.,

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. . He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. — J Connors 4.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Establishing dealer network.

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