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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

Nissan, the Japanese-based company, saw an opportunity to utilize their fully electric model Leaf to assist in these disasters. The idea of using electric vehicles to provide power during emergencies was generated during the 2011 tsunami. Japan is prone to thousands of tsunamis and earthquakes each year. Including an electric vehicle?

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Europcar provided a Shell Recharge card: you create an account, link your payment method and bingo! You need to download the Shell Recharge app, but as I have an Australian phone with an Australian Apple ID, it says it’s not available in my region. Although I believe other rental companies insist on a certain amount.

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

Cars That Think

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Londoners gogoing electric

Green Cars News

London’s first non-membership electric car hire company GoGo Electric, which launched earlier this year, says that the bulk of its customers are private motorists living on the outskirts of the city who want to try out electrics as potential ‘early adopters’. Natalie said: “GoGo is a new business idea, and we think it is very timely.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. let me plug this car in right here, oh wait!

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

On both sides of the Atlantic, the 4xe will be followed by plug-in versions of every other Jeep by 2025, parent company Stellantis announced during a July press briefing. The e-motor also provides regenerative braking to recharge the battery, and there’s an integrated 33 kW (44 hp) starter-generator as well.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook News and ideas for a sustainable world Search 04.17.09 It appears that few people, especially those in the mainstream media, understand the basic physics underlying fast charging, so I though it would be a good idea to review this and its implications for electric vehicle infrastructure.