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Southern California Edison to buy 261 MW of energy storage projects; largest grid-connected storage purchase in US

Green Car Congress

The selection was part of a larger contracting for 2,221 MW of power from diverse new resources. The 2,221 megawatts will represent roughly 10% of SCE’s current total customer peak usage and is enough to power about 950,000 average homes. —Janice Lin, Executive Director of the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA).

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Fantastic 5: 2024 Renault 5 teased in production form ahead of its launch at the Geneva motor show

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To keep costs low the new platform shares 70 per cent of parts from the CMF-B combustion platform that’s used for cars like the current Renault Clio. Expect the Alpine-branded A290 baby hot hatch, which will go head-to-head with the new Abarth 500e, to also bag sports suspension and a more aggressive body kit.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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2 Hello sir, the video was very useful…I am planning to do an MTech project on the EV …as hardware will be the most difficult part… I’m getting confused about the topics… Would you please suggest some topics that would match the MTech level without hardware… thank you. Power Electronic converters 3.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

French construction company Bouygues Immobilier is working on an office in Meudon, western Paris, which uses 4,000 square metres of solar panels to meet not only its own energy needs but also to export surplus energy back to the power grid. The best part? s power generation.&# The elegance of that is wonderful.

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