Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. The system converted AC grid power to DC power to charge the battery and could also convert DC power from the battery to AC power that could feed both external stand-alone loads and the grid.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parliament Buildings. RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. As such, we propose a building in a potential review of the emissions standards beyond 2025, in 2024. Moving to zero emissions vehicles, as the cliche goes, is the low hanging fruit in New Zealand’s fight against climate change.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

billion tons, but had to re-do the baseline of these calculations due to California’s strong truck rules , which will reduce overall emissions by a huge chunk (both in California and other states). We need to electrify transportation, and soon, and we simply aren’t doing enough to fight climate change.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

The grid today could handle many millions of EVs charging late at night when rates are lowest. By 2012, we should have made some progress on this, just in time to re-elect Obama to his second term. Several automakers, including Ford, have partnered with Edison to ensure those cars can get their electricity from somewhere.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. 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. Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? “You guys own the cars.&#

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