Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. 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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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 134

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. There is a really good new book out by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources.

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Wind Grid Green Electric Cars 34

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. Much as I admire the Obama administration’s energy and environment team, there’s no way that the U.S. BYD’s forward-thinking management.

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Chinese Companies Electric Cars BYD 28