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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Tips for Electric Cars To Navigate the Cold Stuff. Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle. But unlike traditional gas-powered cars, electric vehicle batteries do not last as long in extremely cold weather. In addition to an emergency kit, you should also ensure that you have adequate car insurance.

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Anker Solix F3800 and Home Power Panel create an accessible whole-home backup solution

Baua Electric

Self-consumption mode monitors solar production and power from the grid and recharges with excess solar juice. It can then be used to power the home during low solar power situations. This can help minimize electricity bills by using battery power during peak times and recharging during off-peak times.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. A side benefit could be plugging in appliances to the car while camping rough.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. After moving to Octopus Energy we moved to the then Beta version of Octopus Go and this is the killer app for solar and battery power. .

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. Lutz, who retired earlier this year, called the car Detroits "moon shot" and an attempt to wrest the mantle of innovation back from the Japanese. The car is expected to cost around $40,000.

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