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Ford, University of Michigan open $8M battery lab focused on test production of advanced technologies

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Other investors include the University of Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the US Department of Energy. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. Ford, the only automaker to invest in the facility, contributed $2.1

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

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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