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

Cars That Think

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.

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

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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Report: Sumitomo to begin selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles with US Hybrid

Green Car Congress

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.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

Must the battery really be lithium to get this radically different automobile off the drawing board and into the showroom? Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1? And there's the rub. Does he mean it?

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Is GM's Plug-in Hybrid for Real? What Say Big Enviro?

Plugs and Cars

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.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

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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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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