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California Energy Commission awards $750K to Electricore to study standardization of plug-in vehicle batteries

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The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards. The conversion process will also produce biochar, a soil amendment that can be used for agricultural purposes.

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DOE to Award Up to $300M in Stimulus Bill Funding for Projects to Expand Use of Alt-Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles

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Light-duty Neighborhood electric vehicles (if replacing full-size on-road vehicles). A range of off-road/non-road commercial work alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicles. Facility upgrades or building modifications that are necessary to accommodate alternative fuels for fleet garages and other maintenance/service centers.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Similar mismatches between climate policy desires and an energy infrastructure incapable of supporting those policies will play out across not only in the United States but elsewhere in one form or another over the next two decades as conversion to EVs and electric appliances moves to scale. million miles of power lines.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

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If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. And in fact, we’ve had good conversations with bp pulse and with Shell Recharge in our service territory. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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How ridesharing can help solve the challenge of urban EV ownership

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You have AC-to-DC conversion happening within that one unit. That’ll change over time as well, because the demand profile of a station in a residential neighborhood might be different than the demand profile you might get on a major thoroughfare that’s connecting between a residential and a primary commercial district.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The vehicle can also be used to transfer the energy to another location—for example, from a solar charging station at work to the vehicle owner’s home or from a home solar set-up to a vacation dwelling or to a jobsite in a commercial setting. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Credit the EV’s advantage to its greater efficiency in the conversion of chemical energy to motion—77 percent, compared with 12 to 30 percent for a gasoline car—along with the potential to generate electricity using low-carbon sources. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads. passenger vehicles.