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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

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. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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IDTechEX sees battery swapping as winner in 2- and 3-wheeler markets of Asia-Pacific

Green Car Congress

These include long dwell times, high power demand from the grid, availability and reliability issues, and the need for end-users to deal with heavy cables, dirty connectors, and buggy user interfaces. It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there. Two- and three-wheelers.

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Factor in V2G Revenue When Planning Fleet Electrification

Driivz

Public and private fleet owners are under increasing environmental and government pressure to reduce carbon emissions by switching to electric vehicles (EVs). EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. All these costs must be factored into achieving TCO targets.

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Volvo LIGHTS team helps facilitate authorization for public MDHD EV charging stations in California

Green Car Congress

Upon review of the motion, the CPUC issued a decision extending that exemption to medium- and heavy-duty charging station providers and directed Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas & Electric to modify their respective Electric Rule 18 tariffs to allow this resale of electricity as a motor fuel for EVs.

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Blue Bird just got its single largest electric school bus order yet

Baua Electric

Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD) got the single largest order of electric school buses to date from the second-largest public school system in the US. The Los Angeles Unified School District ordered 180 electric school buses, adding to the 26 Blue Bird electric school buses it already has in its fleet. Get started here. –ad*

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Is Installing Dc Fast Charger at Home a Good Choice?

Setec Powerr

Electric vehicles have fundamentally altered our perspective on mobility. This means you can get a lot of miles added to your car in a short charge time – just a few minutes – a really good thing for people with electric cars. A standard home electrical system is designed to handle a peak load of about 10 kW to 20 kW.

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