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The Role of Power Utilities in Turning EVs into a Grid Asset – Part 1

Driivz

EV adoption will accelerate when there is greater choice in affordable vehicles. Building the charging infrastructure will also require fast and affordable access to the grid for charge point operations. Estimates call for 22 million EVs on U.S. roads in 2030, 30–40 million in Europe, and 102 million in India. That’s the good news.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. “ We do need a national energy policy.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Neutral vdex34 @ Apr 19th 2009 8:18PM for the people bitch about garages, how about something that plus into your outdoor outlets, i got like 6 of them in my yard, at least 2 in the front of the house (and my house is over 100 years old) Highly Ranked Decoy @ Apr 19th 2009 8:56PM You can afford a Tesla, but not a garage?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug.

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