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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The idea of vehicle-to-grid is that you are storing energy at the end of the distribution system, so you can absorb those peaks. I think we have 22 or 24 buses in the San Diego area, and we have another deployment underway in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where we are initially deploying 24 as well.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Photovoltaic Modules on Transit Maintenance Facility: Add photovoltaic (PV) modules to the Transit Maintenance Facility (TMF) to generate electricity to offset the electric power consumed at the TMF site. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. Way to go morons.

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