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Better Place, China Southern Grid sign strategic agreement on battery switching; Guangzhou accord to encourage production of EVs with switchable batteries

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Better Place and China Southern Power Grid Co. The Guangzhou accord calls for the municipal government to encourage local car manufacturers, such as Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, to produce electric cars with switchable batteries. —China Southern Grid Chairman Zhao Jianguo.

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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To guarantee their supply commitments, they must secure their capacity with flexible power plants or with storage. This would create an energy market in which only the amount of electricity actually in demand is fed into the grid. A fourth measure relates to the fixed costs of the electricity system, such as the grid or EEG levy.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. By partnering with these two industries. By partnering with these two industries. Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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