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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

I obtained more than the usual share of info simply from my own online sleuthing. Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag). It was one of only 30 sold in Israel last year (out of ~1500 BEV sales there in 2020).

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