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SAE taskforce developing standards for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles; targeting first guideline by end of 2011

Green Car Congress

EVs and PHEVs. The taskforce, which launched in October 2010 and began meeting in November 2010, has a goal of delivering the first SAE guideline by end of 2011 for publishing in 2012. The scope of the work covers light duty passenger EVs and PHEVs and buses. the same.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

It is different from a plug-in hybrid, or PHEV, which runs on both battery power and gasoline. V2G stands for “vehicle-to-grid,&# a technology system being developed to enable electric cars to store power and sell it back to the grid. Which one applies to the Chevy Volt, to be introduced later this year by GM?

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VW and BMW EV Plans, Rivian Charging Networks – EV Week in Review: March 16-22

EV Adoption

“We will no longer develop a new internal combustion engine, but will adapt our existing internal combustion engines to new emission guidelines,” Duesmann told the publication. In an interview with German-language industry news outlet Automobilwoche , Duesmann confirmed the decision. – March 16, via Road & Track.

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