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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

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Photo: GM Energy GM Energy just debuted vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional EV chargers – here’s how GM’s EVs will keep the lights on. Once installed, GM Energy’s home EV chargers will enable customers to send power from a compatible GM EV to their home in the face of increasing power outages across the US. Get started here. –

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ALTe Powertrain and Inmatech form JV for hybrid electric storage devices; Li-ion cells, supercaps, and control electronics

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ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. , Earlier post.).

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

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A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. A Gen 2 Series PHEV Powertrain under development is installed in a running rolling chassis.

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market. Earlier post.) The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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GM demos its new Energy products by running a mansion off a Silverado EV

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Installation is separate (and costs can vary widely), and GM has partnered with Qmerit, a national EV charging installation company, to make it easier for customers to find an installer. The systems can be bought separately or bundled together for $7,299. That’s important, because the system isn’t cheap.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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