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

Cars That Think

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. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

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The electric vehicle industry is growing at a high pace these days. Are you planning a job in electric vehicle industry? Then this Electric Vehicle Interview Questions and Answers will definitely help you out. There are different types of firms working in the electric vehicle domain.

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Romming on Earth (and Sky)

Plug In Partners

(snip) What I've argued in my book, The Hype about Hydrogen , and in a recent Scientific American article, is that the next stage is hybrid cars that can be plugged into the electric grid. And just to be clear, the plug-in hybrid would still have a gasoline engine in it. And so that's the car of the future.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Top 180+ Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Electrical, Mechanical, Management, AI, Environmental Engineering, etc.

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We have published some articles about electric vehicle-related project ideas here in this blog. I haven’t organized the list but you can find electrical, mechanical, and environmental engineering projects in this list. You may use these hints to develop a lot of useful electric vehicle projects.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

The catalytic converter that keeps the ICE from being a gross polluter in conventional cars and hybrids however, isn't kept warm by the continual embrace of an ever-churning engine in a hybrid with all-electric range. A supplemental electric heater comes right to mind. It also spreads doubt about the enviro bona fides of plug-ins.

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