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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Road rallies were held in Juneau, Alaska , where local and state elected officials riding the city’s first electric bus led the way, and in Muskegon, Michigan , where 70 participants in 40 cars, motorcycles, and a golf cart, navigated a 150-mile circuit from Muskegon to Holland to Grand Rapids and back to Muskegon.

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Electrifying School Buses

Noodoe

Electric School Buses in the US are a hot conversation. School buses will, in theory, take power from the grid when it’s most plentiful, store it, and return that power when it’s needed most. Benefits of electric over diesel. Operation Cost. Switching Costs. Electric schools buses are more expensive than diesel ones. The Bottom Line.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Does it, in essence, come down to the fact that V2G takes advantage of battery storage that would exist anyway , as opposed to requiring batteries specifically for the purpose of storing night-time electricity?

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