Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

Grid 135

Grid Power Powered Vehicles 135

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The very first nuclear-powered vessel was the attack submarine USS Nautilus , in 1954, amid the 1950s heyday of nuclear-power research. Russia currently operates seven nuclear-powered icebreakers. Seen here near the port of Seattle, in 1962, the NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship.

Molten Salt 144

Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Batteries not ready. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries.

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45