Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. Vehicle to grid is further out, he said.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Some observers thought V2G could prevent the kinds of price spikes and rolling blackouts then plaguing the Golden State. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Li Lu has agreed to come to FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference next week to talk about BYD. BYD is an amazing company. You can read my BYD story here.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. Wang Chuan-Fu started BYD (the letters are the initials of the companys Chinese name) in 1995 in Shenzhen, China.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Remember its PURE D.C. SZ (1) 6753.T

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