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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. The conference attendees heard the now familiar if increasingly impassioned representatives of the utility industry trumpet the benefits of electricity for transportation. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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Nissan and Enel to launch major V2G trial in the UK; LEAF and e-NV200

Green Car Congress

The partners will install and connect 100 V2G units at locations agreed upon by private and fleet owners of the Nissan LEAF and e-NV200 electric van. Nissan and multinational power company Enel will launch the first major vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial carried out in the UK. Earlier post.)

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

Cars That Think

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Everyone’s all excited that Ford just turned a profit, but they’re doing it with a fleet of uninspired crappy cars that they practically have to give away. Several Chinese car companies are working on cheap, entry level full electric vehicles and will have them ready years before the major car companies. Really Ford?

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Tesla Places Big Bet on Vision-Only Self-Driving

Cars That Think

Cameras are dirt cheap compared to lidar,” he says. “By Tesla’s big bet, says Weinberger, is that the mountain of video its fleet amasses will help it reach full autonomy faster than the smaller amount of lidar data its competitors relying on a small number of more sensor-laden cars driven by employees.

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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.]. Charged : Do you see that as just something for fleets, heavy-duty vehicles, or could that have applications to passenger vehicles too? Oleg: Well, absolutely. Is CharIN involved in that sort of thing?

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. Electric cars will be one answer.

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