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

Green Car Congress

The energy warehouse is used to cut the property’s power consumption peaks, and to store or sell surplus solar energy. It can also be used to buy and store electricity from the national grid when it is cheap and green, for later use. IRIS is a Light House project, financed by EU HORIZON 2020.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

And they did, and it did a lot of really bad things; it ran red lights. O’Dowd: In March, in North Carolina, a self-driving Tesla blew past a school bus with its red lights flashing and hit a child in the road, just like we showed in our Super Bowl commercial. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware.

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

Charged EVs

Our habits will change, the way we deliver power, where we deliver power, will change. As an example, if you park by a lighting pole in the city or on the corner where you have an advertisement kiosk, it’s very easy to imagine that there is a place for a robotic arm to find the socket in your vehicle. It’s a must.