Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2015
To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Fisker revealed its Fisker Ocean electric SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The Fisker Ocean will have a set of V2X technologies that enable owners to recharge other EVs, send power to the electrical grid, and use their vehicles as a back-up source of emergency power for their homes.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2021
Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Urban Electric Power (Pearl River, New York).
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.&#. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. February 15, 2010.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. stores energy from the sun to be released onto the grid at a. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace.
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