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

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 by 2030 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50 percent by 2030 and the vehicle market share of U.S.-assembled It believes that there will be a net loss of 275,000 auto industry jobs by 2040, with most of the drop off coming between 2030 and 2035.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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The fund often runs out of money , discouraging future EV purchasers Making policy implementation harder still is that some regulatory bodies assume that other regulatory bodies will implement their policy for them. Historically, auto regulation has dealt with “the negative externalities associated with the auto itself,” he explained.

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