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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

According to Ford, that translates to three days for an average 30 kilowatt-per-hour-per-day house with the extended-range Lightning battery, or as long as 10 days when used with a home solar power system that is equipped with a transfer switch that disconnects the house from the grid. And that’s much cheaper than a new $1,300 kit.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

“These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It I charge the car on the solar array in my back yard. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I That gives me 30 miles on a sunny day.”

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

“These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. “It I charge the car on the solar array in my back yard. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I That gives me 30 miles on a sunny day.”

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Illinois Institute of Technology with City of Chicago, MicroSun Technologies and Commonwealth Edison, Ford Escape Hybrid by All Cell Technologies (March 2007), Chicago, IL, contact: kcampbell@cityofchicago.org , alhallaj@iit.edu , sveupet@gmail.com. Jim Tech Ltd. Contact LMirisola@. Contact Ewan Pritchard at epritcha@advancedenergy.org.

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