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

Cars That Think

And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. 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. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Mercedes just got a license in California to drive a car that you don’t have to have hands on the wheel. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 cents per mile traveled, compared with 12 cents per mile for a gas-powered car, advocates say. Since batteries that power electric vehicles might last longer than the car itself, they say financing will have to be adjusted to reflect that.

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

Charged EVs

Also, CharIN’s 5th North America Conference and Testival took place at Lucid Motors Headquarters in Newark, California in November.]. We have a long history of collaboration with, for example, the California Energy Commission and the US Department of Energy. The purpose of these events is very simple. We have joint efforts.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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