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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

Green Car Congress

In Viva housing cooperative, Riksbyggen, Volvo, Göteborg Energi and Johanneberg Science Park have created a unique system in which energy from solar panels on the roofs of the apartment buildings is stored in batteries that previously powered electric buses on route 55.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Got to prove you are awake by touching the wheel, but you can buy a weight on Amazon to hang on the wheel to get round that. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware. What’s next?

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

Without connectivity, you cannot really integrate transportation with the power grid. The story we hear again and again is that a company buys some electric trucks and some chargers, but soon realizes that it’s much more complicated than they thought, so they look for help from companies like In-Charge and AMPLY Power.