Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained. So instead, Edison and auto manufacturers are turning to “smart metering&# technologies.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries. Oregon cant afford to play that game, or at least not at those levels, but McCabe thinks it remains a serious contender for Norwegian electric car manufacturer Think.

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