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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. Your power comes from the grid as 240 Volts AC. On a sunny day the rate of battery usage slows and extend the off grid hours. .

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

Step away from them screens for a few hours and get your creative juices flowing! It’s estimated that UK households waste 4.5million tonnes of food every year , which creates greenhouse gases 21 times more damaging to the environment than CO2 when left to rot in landfill. Upcycle and recycling projects. What’s not to like?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2.

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