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OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Green Car Congress

Concept of the service and mobile app for renewable charging. OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate a new OnStar service for managing the charging of Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy, using the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s “Gfleet” based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

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

Green Car Congress

Electric Vehicles, University of Delaware). will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. to demonstrate proof of concept for hydride-based thermal. Scalable Real-time Decentralized Volt/VAR Control Caltech will develop scalable, real-time, decentralized. scalable fabrication processes. Oak Ridge National.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. It’s got 120 volts up to 900 volts. I want to be able to prove their concept. Zeem is the only as-a-service company to have a depot with chargers and vehicles already running. The pioneer of vehicle­-to-grid is part of my team.

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

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?” NEWS.BLOG: APPLE (CNET NEWS.COM) Boston hotels wary of Craigslist-lurking killer Whats This?

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