Electric Auto Association
APRIL 2, 2022
The descriptive article GM and PG&E to test how EVs can power homes during blackouts provides several jumping-off points for your independent investigation. Utilities must purchase power from sources on the spot market during times of grid stress, and those prices can be very high.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2014
An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
EnerDel purchases their raw materials from suppliers in Japan and Korea but is working on localizing production in the US. cell as % of cost = 50% (BCG article w. The anode and cathode materials are a mixture of active ingredients, solvent and binder. The active materials are defined by the cell chemistry. Cell Price.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). I would prefer to recharge at home, and could do so.
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