Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. Are electric cars really green than combustion engine cars?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Current consortium members include Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Here’s the scoop: Engineers drill a hole about 6,000 feet down where the magma has heated the surrounding area to about 400-500 degrees Farenheit. Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil. This means it is a “base load&# energy.

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