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

Creative Greenius

Too bad for America our corporations long ago outsourced that kind of effort and heart. 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. When’s your affordable EV that gets 1oo mile range on a quick charge Ford?

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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. The pair made major contributions to the propulsion system for the Impact , a battery-powered concept car that AeroVironment built under contract for General Motors.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk talks EV charging infrastructure and billionaire taxes

Teslarati

So there’s no need for this support for a charging network. When we started Tesla, there were no EV subsidies at all, and gasoline was super cheap. The $7,500 tax credit came as a result not because of Tesla’s activity but because of General Motors’ lobbying. I’d delete it. I don’t know.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Project Better Place plans to deploy a massive network of battery charging spots. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. Analysts are sanguine about this kind of thing becoming more common — someday.

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