Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Contour Energy was founded in 2007 out of the collaboration of Caltech and CNRS, the French National Center of Scientific Research. ActaCell was also formed in 2007 by exclusively licensing Li-ion technologies developed at the University of Texas at Austin’s Material Sciences Program by Professor Arumugam Manthiram.

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Li-ion Companies Energy Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp.

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EV Smart Ford Charging North America 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types. Go to Hymotion.com.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 41

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). The damages the committee was able to quantify were an estimated $120 billion in the US in 2005, a number that reflects primarily health damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation and motor vehicle transportation. Damages from electricity generation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. We can also extrapolate some data from experience with the RAV4EV all-electric vehicles.

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks.

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