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Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.
Plug In Partners
JULY 12, 2007
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison M omentum for Plug-ins continues to build as two of the biggest names in transportation and energy meet. SCE has said that its existing power-generation facilities would be capable of supplying millions of vehicles if they were recharged at night when demand is low. clip) The U.S.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. stores energy from the sun to be released onto the grid at a. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
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. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Establishing dealer network.
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