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

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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So like your smartphone, it needs these converters to digitize your voice but also to handle the radio signal and so on. And then you feed it to your analog to digital converter. Instead, what he’s proposing is that we invent an analog-to-digital converter that doesn’t need one. Moore: Exactly. As they say, the world is analog.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. Together they represent about a quarter of the nation’s new car sales. The governors of the 8 states began this latest collaboration with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 24 October 2013. Earlier post.)

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EPA proposes rule for nationwide 30% cut in GHG from existing power plants by 2030 relative to 2005

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Vermont and Washington, DC are not included in this rule because they do not have fossil fuel-fired power plants. Heat rate improvements result in any changes in equipment, operating procedures or maintenance practices that increase the efficiency of converting fuel energy into electricity by an EGU.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota BZ4X EV

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The BZ4X will be sold throughout the world, but in America it will be first offered (April 2022) in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. 150 kW maximum DC charging. 100 kW maximum DC charging. of torque. 0 – 60 mph: 7.1

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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

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The PCU features a compact inverter design with direct cooling of IGBT transistors, and converts DC to 3-phase AC to drive MG1 and MG2. Controlled by the hybrid ECU, the PCU boost converter raises 201.6 VDC up to 650 volts DC. The MG ECU is packaged within the inverter assembly.). Vehicle deliveries begin in Spring 2012.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 EV

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The Ioniq 6 can charge as fast as some of its more expensive competitors For faster charging, owners can take advantage of three years of complementary unlimited charging at Electrify America stations, where with a 350kW DC unit, the Ioniq 6 can get up to 80% in 18 minutes, adding about 65 miles in 5 minutes.

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