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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Cheers — Al Louard 11.

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Hawaii opts for EVs and renewable energy

Revenge of the Electric Car

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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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. 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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