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Toyota to debut 2 BEVs, 1 PHEV for US this year; says research shows BEVs & PHEVs have similar environmental benefits

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Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) plans to debut three new electrified models—two BEVs and a PHEV—in the US market this year. —Gill Pratt, chief scientist of Toyota Motor Corporation and CEO of Toyota Research Institute. The PHEV is much less expensive to buy and own, compared to the BEV.

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Parker Project demonstrates cross-brand V2G in Denmark; more tests of grid services slated

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The Parker Project has used a fleet of four vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe and Nissan to demonstrate that vehicles from different car brands can contribute to supporting the electricity grid with vehicle to grid (V2G) services. —Alberto Piglia, Enel’s Head of e-Mobility.

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Japan V2G demonstrator project using EVs as virtual power plant resource; METI funding

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TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.; Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC); SHIZUOKA GAS Co., Scope of demonstration system to be built in FY 2018. Stabilizing the power grid requires the use of thermal power but this incurs costs in owning and maintaining such power generating plants. TEPCO); TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.;

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Chubu Electric Power, Toyota partner on reuse and subsequent recycling of NiMH and Li-ion electrified vehicle batteries

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and Toyota Motor Corporation have agreed to start a verification project that entails construction of a large-capacity storage battery system that reuses electrified vehicle batteries, as well as examination of the recycling of used batteries. Chubu Electric Power Co.,

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. National Grid. Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. Kansas City Power & Light.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

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That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. It was all-new for the 2018 model year, and was engineered from the start to accommodate 2021’s PHEV version.

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Vouchers are Becoming the Clean Vehicle Incentive of Choice for Fleets

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While the program supported three electrification technologies, including hybrid-electric (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and fully electric (EV), and over nine vehicle classifications, the popular Class 2B HEVs (e.g. Today, there are three new program developments that set the program up for success in 2018 and beyond. Be inclusive.

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