Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

What is the range of the PRT before it needs to be recharged and/or how many hours can it operate before recharging? With a typical simulated stop-go cycle and by putting the vehicle out of service when the batteries reach 20% of their charge, this means about 3-4 hours of continuous service before a long recharge is needed.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards. The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. For batteries, it’s quite expensive to make the bath bigger.”

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

Then if we invest in thousands of wind farms across the country to feed cheap electricity into the grid, we could do most short-distance driving with wind energy , dramatically reducing both carbon emissions and the pressure on world oil supplies. This could cut U.S. costs the equivalent of 50 cents a gallon of gasoline.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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Driivz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Companies can reduce costs by using locally generated renewable energy, typically solar, to power EV charging instead of grid electricity. This energy can also be stored in onsite batteries for use when grid energy is most expensive. Or you can store grid energy in the batteries when it is cheap and use it to meet peak needs.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. It’s because a motor drives these vehicles, while the rechargeable batteries provide power to run the engine. Smart charging involves intelligent management of how your EV charges, by connecting it to a grid or a solar pv network. We want to save money.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The system consists of up to modules holding lithium-ion batteries or ultracapacitors, a gas generator for recharging the batteries while driving and a complex array of software and circuit boards that juggle electrical loads to maximize performance and drive time. Though $155,000 seems awfully cheap for lithium-ion battery packs.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. In addition, it has wide use applications from mobility to grid scale storage." They both are alkaline metals.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The electric grid is the most advanced energy-distribution network ever created and is constantly only a few feet away from us (far more ubiquitous than gas/ethanol/hydrogen stations). Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. It is estimated recharging takes about twice as long as discharging, though I tend to just simply plug the thing in overnight; it’s always full the next time it is needed.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

charger is also required, though ideally the existing motor controllers might be used as grid chargers. Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.] If we’re going to hit the numbers we need to hit for fleet adoption, we need as many places for those vehicles to recharge as possible. If Tesla needs to come in and build a charging site, they’ve got to pay for the grid connection.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Larry 4. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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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. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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