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The Transformative Role of Electric Vehicles in Shaping Smart Cities

Baua Electric

Unlike traditional internal combustion engine vehicles that emit pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter, EVs produce no emissions during operation. Integration with Energy Storage Systems: Smart cities often integrate EV charging infrastructure with energy storage systems.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

The Truth About Cars

The business will be known as ChargeScape and, according to the automakers' press release, seeks to “create a single platform that will seamlessly connect electric utilities, automakers and their interested EV customers to manage energy usage for a broad pool of EVs.” Though whether that theory plays out as advertised remains to be seen.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Novel Tuning of Critical. Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of. coupled with novel thermal energy storage technology, which. storage material.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

French construction company Bouygues Immobilier is working on an office in Meudon, western Paris, which uses 4,000 square metres of solar panels to meet not only its own energy needs but also to export surplus energy back to the power grid. February 17, 2009 9:11 am Link Smart grid great Dumb govt.

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