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

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It by goodpen 04/20/2009 2:44 p.m. PT • Illegals?

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. OVERVIEW: WHEW, WHAT A YEAR!

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