Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
JUNE 27, 2022
Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.
Creative Greenius
JANUARY 11, 2010
org, GRID Alternatives, Greenpeace, Environmental Priorities Network, Malibu City Council – they all got chunks of my volunteer time in ‘09. We need more juice than that to get things done in the Greenius Decade and I know precisely where to get it. The Greenius Decade is all about V2G, the smart grid and the smart garage.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2013
The plant was originally fueled by coal but was converted to natural gas in 2010. After the sugarcane has been crushed, the cane juice is filtered, treated with calcium hydroxide, decanted, and then sent to sugar production. However, the Raizen COPI mill exports surplus co-generated electricity to the public grid.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 23, 2008
a Detroit-based subsidiary of LG Chem, to be supplier of the advanced lithium-ion batteries for the Volt (right) , which is scheduled to begin production in late 2010. Reuters news service and the independent Volt fan site, GM-Volt.com , both reported today that GM has decided to select Compact Power Inc.,
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.
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