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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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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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—Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation. These three street types weave together to form an organic grid pattern to help accelerate the testing of autonomy. The plan is for 2000 people to start, adding more as the project evolves. The groundbreaking for the site is planned for early 2021.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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FedEx Express doubles and diversifies all-electric fleet with 24 new units; adding more than 4,000 new, fuel-efficient vehicles in total

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These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid. Since launching our first Sprinter in 2000, we have put close to 1.4

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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While president, Rahman established the IEEE PES Corporate Engagement Program , which allows employers to receive IEEE benefits by paying their employees' IEEE membership dues. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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IOC to set up 10,000 EV charging stations in 3 years

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Indian Oil Corporate (IOC) State-owned oil marketing company aims to install 10,000 charging stations for electric vehicles in the country over the next three years. The Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) announced that it plans to set up two ethanol plants in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at an investment of about ?600 600 crores each.

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First fleet of 100 Mercedes-Benz Vito E-Cell electric vans covers 650,000 km in customer use; more model variants planned

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The areas of application are diverse: courier, express and package service providers (KEP, in German: Kurier-, Express- und Paketdienstleister); plant transportation in large corporations; service vehicles for plant maintenance, customer service, and assembly and internal transport within companies.

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