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

Cars That Think

As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

I think Leafs would have appeared in California junkyards earlier than they did had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic, which pushed up the resale value of low-range EVs to households seeking cheap third and fourth errand-mobiles that solo drivers could use in the HOV lanes on many Golden State highways.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. For our discussion, Saturn dealers were the delivery and service point for GM’s aborted first electric car, the EV1. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. Is there a Right Way?

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.