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Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2015
To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. Sorry for any confusion. More on Electric Cars: It’s On!
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. To recharge 20 kilowatt-hours of capacity in 5 minutes requires 240 kilowatts of electricity. But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. slow charge.
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.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. 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.
Revenge of the Electric Car
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil. The plan, the brainchild of the former Silicon Valley software executive Shai Agassi , is an effort to overcome the major hurdles to electric cars — slow battery recharging and limited availability.
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