Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

Bob didn’t emote too much over the state of the car industry and Detroit as a whole, but, surprisingly, his wife did. She was in town for a little business and a little fun—test driving the next Volt mule. If Chelsea’s ear-to-ear grin was anything to go by, the Volt seemed to be progressing fine. There’s always next time.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said. Every [Volt] will come equipped so you have some type of charger. Vehicle to grid is further out, he said.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Tools for Fleets and Commercial/Industrial Buildings – vertical-specific tools to manage and optimize EV charging for fleets and in commercial/industrial buildings. Municipality and neighborhood zoning may regulate the size and scope of charging station operation based on physical size, business operation and other factors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

GM and ABB partnered to produce a prototype back-up power storage unit that repackages five used Volt batteries into a modular unit that becomes an uninterruptible power supply and grid power balancing system. a community energy storage system—built from five used Chevrolet Volt batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

High-voltage DC current is more dangerous and harder to interrupt than the comparatively sedate 48 volts used in smaller vehicles. As the industry gets ahead of the standards, the uncertainty is delaying time to market for many companies, and cutting into profits (to say nothing of potentially endangering peoples’ safety).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM CPI considers the safety of their chemistry as well as the flexibility of their packaging to be key reasons why they GM selected them for the Volt. Prabhakar Patil.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

Andy Frank makes the observation that parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius) are cheaper than series hybrids (Chevy Volt). To date, the relatively high cost of batteries has kept electric and plug-in vehicles at the fringes of the auto industry. million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 14, 2021

The industry and the journalists who cover it often focus on the 17 million new vehicles sold each year in the US, not the roughly 40 million sold as used cars. Large numbers of those households will likely have to add a 120-volt outlet or 240-volt Level 2 charging station in or on their garages.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. This is especially true in air, sea, and some ground transportation as well as in industrial processes. Since some readers might read only one appendix, some information has been repeated.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. This is the game-changer for our industry,” said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s president and chief executive.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. The last Chevrolet Volt had 53 miles of range.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. The last Chevrolet Volt had 53 miles of range.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

The high-voltage battery in the BMW i3 consists of eight modules (each with 12 individual cells), which together produce a rated voltage of 360 volts and generate approximately 22 kWh of energy. This process is the first of its kind in the global automotive industry. The motor’s average power consumption of around 0.13

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Lotus Engineering and Harmon International, two heavyweights in their respective industries, have teamed up to create a new technology known as Electronic Sound Synthesis (ESS). Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

While I was aware of this trend — I see it loud and clear in my own neighborhood — I hadn’t realized how wide-spread this trend actually was in the US. I recently chatted with someone in the industry who laughed when I talked about these households and he shared that he was one of them. The Journal of Transport and Land Use — Jamey M.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

It might seem that simply plugging in your Chevy Volt or Ford Escape before bedtime would do. But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As we reported in our exclusive interview with ABC Solar’s Brad Bartz last month, he was battling the City of Torrance on behalf of a homeowner in my very own Hollywood Riviera neighborhood who was being blocked from installing solar by the City. This also allows a Prius to perform much like the Chevy Volt, but for a much lower cost.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts. govt/industry defined standards my be required.??

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