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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

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SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. Organic wastes converted to biogas could supply enough renewable natural gas for about 2 million residential units.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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In the US alone, oil reserves have expanded 59% between 2000 and 2014, and natural gas reserves have expanded 94% in the same time. This requires estimates of total reserves and resources of each fossil fuel, carbon conversion factors, estimates of historical emissions, and a model to convert carbon dioxide emissions into temperature changes.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. And the estimate was that about 80 percent of all the miles covered by Volt came from grid power, not from gasoline. in 2000 to 0.7

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. And the estimate was that about 80 percent of all the miles covered by Volt came from grid power, not from gasoline. in 2000 to 0.7