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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.
Sumitomo, which is strengthening its automobile business and expects growth in the fuel cell market, plans to supply mostly Japanese commercial vehicle makers, according to the report. The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Corp., Sumitomo has been involved in fuel cell research and development of years, and already produces fuel cell components.
EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “We Martinson’s GM EV1. This did not stop the CEO from offering Martinson a chance to drive one of the utility’s GM EV1 ’s. “He
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While espousing the "electrification of the automobile," Waggoner made no firm committment. And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid.
If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. That “V2G&# over the wheel stands for Vehicle to Grid. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
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