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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. As one example in the opening plenary panel session, Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation described the opportunity and challenges from his utility’s point of view. The average peak electric demand for a house in San Francisco is 1.8

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

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The facility is very well maintained and gives the impression of being on a gigantic movie set, since it is full of buildings and roads but contains relatively very few people. Going forward, GM plans to spend proportionally less of its marketing budget on the corporate identity and more on the vehicle brands. Build better products.

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GE and Berkeley Lab developing water-based high energy density flow battery for EVs

Green Car Congress

This battery could be one-fourth the cost of current car batteries, and could nearly triple the distance electric vehicles could travel on a single charge. Discharge and re-charge of such flow batteries occur in electrochemical cells separated from energy storing tanks, which makes them safer. Click to enlarge.

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EV battery swapping may aid resolve the U.S. charging sickness

Baua Electric

However quickly upcoming Higher Park introduced its battery-switching stations in 2012, Elon Musk unveiled a distant fast-charging community that will handover Tesla drivers, next (and now) essentially the most usual EV emblem. “We’re going to be a lot cheaper than fast charging,” says Hassounah.

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EADS demonstrating electric and hybrid aviation propulsion; innovative distributed propulsion series hybrid

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The partners hope to build a proof of concept in 3 years and have Certification CS23 in 10 years. The batteries can be recharged in one hour, or they can be rapidly replaced by means of a quick-change system (available on the fully certified version). and 1 hour, EADS said. —Jean Botti, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at EADS.

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Major study concludes achieving EU 2050 transport decarbonization goals will require portfolio of advanced powertrains; fuel cells, battery-electric and plug-in hybrids

Green Car Congress

Car manufacturers: BMW AG, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors LLC, Honda R&D, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Nissan, Renault, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen. Charging times are also significantly longer: 6-8 hours using normal charging equipment. Total Raffinage Marketing.

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