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

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. Keep your EV Battery Charged. Driving an electric vehicle has obvious advantages in terms of fuel efficiency, but it also comes with an important responsibility: keeping the battery charged. Warm your EV Before You Hit the Road.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 cents per mile traveled, compared with 12 cents per mile for a gas-powered car, advocates say. Since batteries that power electric vehicles might last longer than the car itself, they say financing will have to be adjusted to reflect that.

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NETL investigating researching chemistries for large-scale battery- and supercapacitor-based grid energy storage systems

Green Car Congress

High-energy density magnesium batteries for smart electrical grids. Magnesium-based batteries are an attractive alternative to other batteries, such as lithium (Li) batteries, because magnesium (Mg) is cheap, safe to use, and its compounds are usually non-toxic. Earlier post.)