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

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Kempton and Letendre’s. In the UK, experiments are.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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The Cayman e-Performance clearly shows Porsche on the cusp of building all-electric cars that can match the performance of their top production-based 911 GT racers—while using a fraction of the energy, and with zero tailpipe emissions. The all-electric GT4 can already match the Monaco lap times of the brand’s fearsome 911 GT3 Cup racer. “For

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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