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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. “I’m very encouraged that carmakers now see as allies the utilities, plug-in advocates, community and regional efforts like ProjectGetReady.”

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Green and Connected: CAR White Paper Explores Interaction of Vehicle Communications and Electrification of Powertrains

Green Car Congress

The purpose of the paper (which Richard Wallace, CAR’s Director Transportation Systems Analysis Group announced during a session exploring the same topic at the Business of Plugging In 2010 conference in Detroit) is threefold. The initial grid-enabled model. The integrated energy transportation efficiency model.

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Maryland commits to ban on gas vehicle sales

Teslarati

“ It is based on California’s economy, California’s transportation needs, and California’s electrical grid.” “ It is based on California’s economy, California’s transportation needs, and California’s electrical grid.” The requirements allow plug-in hybrid vehicles to account for 20 percent of the requirements.

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Chrysler/DOE Ram PHEV project exploring battery life modeling

Green Car Congress

The RAM plug-in hybrid truck. Chrysler is showcasing its two-mode Ram Truck Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), equipped with a 12 kWh, 33 Ah cell, 355V Li-ion battery pack from Electrovaya, at the Washington DC Auto Show. grid storage and load balancing for the battery pack; and integration with renewable energy.

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US Utilities Pledge to Ramp Up Efforts To Make Electricity a Crucial Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

Declaring an urgent imperative to prepare for the use of electricity as a crucial transportation fuel in the future, the US’ electric utilities collectively pledged to move forward aggressively to create the infrastructure to support the full-scale commercialization and deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs).

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OnStar Service to Launch in China in December

Green Car Congress

With its diagnostic and routing capabilities, suggests Tony Posawatz, GM’s Vehicle Line Director for the Volt, OnStar could eventually deliver an optimal green routing for the Volt, in addition to providing enhanced diagnostics—and perhaps some remote battery management services—for the battery packs in plug-in vehicles. Emergency services.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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