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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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ABB and Volvo Buses partnering on fast-charging system for hybrid and electric buses

Green Car Congress

ABB and Volvo Buses are partnering to co-develop and to commercialize electric and hybrid buses with open standards-based direct current (DC) fast charging systems. Volvo hybrid bus. Volvo Buses launched its first hybrid bus in 2009 and has delivered nearly 1,600 hybrids to 21 countries. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Swiss logistics firm puts Designwerk’s 420 kW Mega Charger into operation – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Designwerk Technologies, based in Winterthur, Switzerland, has developed a DC fast charging station for commercial EVs that’s packaged in a container format. The Mega Charger can contribute to the stability of our site grid by smoothing out peak loads.” “The The Volvo Group has held a stake in Designwerk since 2021.

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SCAQMD awards AC Propulsion $300K grant for 3 electric service van conversions

Green Car Congress

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has awarded AC Propulsion a $300,000 grant to integrate its electric drive system technology into commercial service vans ( three Ford E250 vans supplied by Comcast) in Southern California.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. CSI says this is the world’s first production of a liquid renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources of energy.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009.

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