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JANUARY 12, 2023

WattTime, founded in 2014, provides information to everyone from power utilities to individual users on the best forecasted times to pull electricity from the grid for the smallest carbon footprint. Toyota also offers PHEV vehicle options with the Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime. Lexus’ all-new RZ 450e BEV will go on sale early this year.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

in a field study of household experiences and the technical impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), in a smart grid environment. Toyota Motor Sales will supply 18 Prius PHVs for the two-year program. For longer distances, the PHV reverts to its hybrid mode and operates like a regular Prius. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 9, 2016

Jeremy Michalek accounted for regional differences in emissions due to marginal grid mix; ambient temperature; patterns of vehicle miles traveled (VMT); and driving conditions (city versus highway). Toyota Prius PHV PHEV (blended). Toyota Prius HEV. Yuksel et al. Click to enlarge. Chevy Volt PHEV (EREV). Mazda 3 (with i-ELOOP).

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Vehicle Connectivity Modules (VCMs) will be installed in each vehicle to establish two-way communication with the grid and log critical performance data. GridPoint’s smart charging software can be used to manage the flow of electricity to charging vehicles, balancing driver needs and real-time grid conditions.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 7, 2011

In the latest example of the opportunities created by the rollout of electric vehicles, smart grid networking player Silver Spring Networks announced it will unveil a prototype tomorrow of a charging station enabled with its technology for the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid (pictured).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2010

Well, now we've driven a prototype of the 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid that Toyota will sell in the U.S. It's just like driving a standard Toyota Prius hybrid. The 2012 Plug-In will be the first Toyota that can be plugged into the electric grid to recharge its battery pack since it sold several hundred RAV4e electric. Only more so.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 10, 2011

World supplies of the highly popular Toyota Prius hybrid could be further threatened by new electric power problems in Japan. The Japanese government requested on Friday, May 6, that the Hamaoka nuclear power plant system shut down all of its reactors, which supply to the central Japanese power grid.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Drawing on experience gained in the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of eastern Japan, Toyota will introduce a 1.5kW power supply option for the Japan-market Prius within about half a year, and will expand the option to other hybrids in the near future.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The V2H system is to start testing, using Prius PHVs, at the end of 2012 in approximately ten households as part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project (Toyota City Project) that began in April 2010. when running the engine in the Prius PHV as a generator. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 25, 2018

Not long ago, green car fans had only one choice: a hybrid vehicle like the Prius that gets all its energy from gasoline.

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 19, 2011

It's been a long time coming, but by June of next year, the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid will go on sale in the U.S. If you're eager to be one of the very first on your block to own the world's most popular hybrid vehicle--but you insist on being able to plug it into grid power--now is your moment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

This is lower than any other car in production, including the Toyota Prius (89 gCO 2 /km) and the VW Golf Bluemotion (99 gCO 2 /km) – two of the previously best-performing low-emission vehicles. He then took government data on the UK grid carbon intensity and applied this to the electric car efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

Full operation of the stations will begin in April, with 20 Prius Plug-In Hybrids. The station is grid connected, and also captures power generated by the 1.9 Maximum output using grid power is 202VAC/3.2kW. TIC has been developing and manufacturing the DC-DC converter since the first generation Prius.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

These will ultimately include up to 30 vans (Mercedes-Benz Vito E-CELL) and some 90 electric cars (smart ed, Opel Ampera and Toyota Prius) for private transport. These vehicles already provided insights into bi-directional loading and integration in a smart grid in the earlier MeRegioMobil project. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Since its invention, the Toyota Prius has been at the centre of a host of technological advances and now a new venture is on the horizon. The SmartGridCity project is aimed at increasing grid reliability and energy use information. The vehicles will be delivered to the SmartGridCity project in March, 2010.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 12, 2012

If you have a car that both plugs in and runs on a conventional engine, what's the mix of miles done on grid power versus gasoline? In the case of the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, with an electric range of 6 to 15 miles, that's probably about right--especially in the kind of low-speed, stop-and-go urban.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 23, 2012

In an effort to create an optimised charging scheme, Toyota has decided to participate in a smart grid project that will kick off in 2013 and run until the end of the year. It will team up with Duke Energy and Energy Systems Network in Indiana and aim to equalise day and night load on [.].

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In the study’s future 2018 grid scenarios that account for predicted coal plant retirements, PEVs would produce air emissions damages comparable to or slightly lower than HEVs. Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. Source: Weis et al. Click to enlarge.

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 16, 2010

In this case, we're pleased to be able to point ACE readers toward a drive report of a prototype 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid from our sister site GreenCarReports.com. The 2012 Prius Plug-In will be the first Toyota that uses grid power to recharge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Unlike earlier studies, the CMU team combined detailed modeling of the operating constraints of the electric grid with an estimate of the environmental and health damages from the additional emission due to vehicle charging, in addition to evaluating the change in operating costs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Latest from CalCars-News: [ see all latest ] How CalCars Green-Tuned an 04 Prius into a PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid! Add batteries and grid-charging, and you get PRIUS+, a "plug-in" hybrid (PHEV).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Hymotion Prius A123Systems. EnergyCS Prius Valence. EnergyCS Prius Altair Nano. Hybrids Plus Prius Hybrids Plus. Manzanita Prius Lead acid. Hybrids Plus Prius Thunder Sky. Model Battery. Hymotion Escape A123Systems. Ford E85 Escape Johnson Controls/Saft. Electrovaya Escape Electrovaya.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2011

The number refers to plug-in vehicles that use grid power, stored in lithium-ion battery packs, to operate their electric traction motors. Regular hybrids like the Toyota Prius don't do that. Since 2008, Barack Obama has consistently promoted the goal of having 1 million advanced technology vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 9, 2007

Barbara Boxer attended a Silicon Valley Alternative Energy Summit today and PG&E was there with its plug-in hybrid Prius. Green Wombat reports on the Vehicle to Grid (V2G) capability demonstrated by PG&E. The modified Toyota Prius was plugged into a into a standard PG&E meter outside Advanced Micro Devices's Sunnyvale headquarters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Within the fleet, they considered only vehicles of similar size and acceleration performance to the Toyota Prius. Among their findings were: In agreement with prior studies, without sufficient grid decarbonization, plug-in vehicles do not offer substantial GHG emissions reductions compared to HEVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The study, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales USA with the integral partnership of Xcel Energy, is one of the only of its kind, combining both household and vehicle data in a smart-grid context. A total of 142 smart-metered households were randomly selected to participate from among early volunteers for Boulder’s SmartGridCity project.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Reduced efficiency results in increased energy consumption and increased emissions from the electricity grid when BEVs charge. The net effect on emissions varies across the country due to source of electricity generation as well as the regional differences in marginal electricity grid mix. —Yuksel and Michalek. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales USA is teaming up with the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, to launch a field study into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in a smart grid environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Regionally specific lifecycle CO 2 emissions per mile traveled for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the US can vary widely based on grid emission factors (i.e., Under some conditions, the battery electric Nissan LEAF can produce higher emissions than a Toyota Prius hybrid.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

It could even allow for integrating cars into intelligent power grids for optimizing power supply and demand. million hybrid vehicles since it launched the first-generation Prius in 1997. Next-generation lithium-ion battery power could allow for powering cars with clean energy from solar cells and from wind turbines.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

CSIRO engineers modified Toyota Prius hybrids by removing the OEM battery pack and installing a larger 6 kWh, 30 Ah NiMH battery pack (five times the capacity of the original 1.2 Ah pack) and a battery charger to allow the cars to plug into and charge with electricity from the grid or from on-site renewable energy sources.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 21, 2007

A month or so ago word was Toyota was postponing the new generation Lithium Prius. Now, however, we continue to see more information on Toyota's own prototype plug-in Lithium Prius. After all, grid electricity is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline. Tags: plug-in prius electric car plug-in hybrid toyota hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

With natural gas as the feedstock for hydrogen and power generation, Toyota currently calculates 40% WTW efficiency for a fuel cell vehicle; 33% for an EV; 34% for a hybrid (Prius); and 19% for an internal combustion engine. The key is to make sure your grid is clean. It’s pretty challenging for a full-range larger vehicle.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) To take one example, batteries.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Engineers from CSIRO modified Toyota Prius vehicles, removing the OEM battery pack and instead installing a larger 6kWh, 30Ah NiMH battery pack with five times the capacity of the original. This, alongside a battery charger, allows the cars to plug into and charge with electricity from the grid or from on-site renewable energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The PHEV-10, similar to the Prius Plug-In ( earlier post ) has a larger battery pack than an HEV to allow 10 miles of driving powered by electricity only and a gasoline engine that drives the wheels in parallel with the electric motor when power demand is high or the batteries are discharged.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

said they have both pledged to participate in the project and are already developing a grid system that would allow drivers to charge their car batteries while away from home. Toyota is currently testing its own prototype plug-in Prius and 100 Californian households will receive plug-in Priuses this spring. Duke Energy Corp.

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