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

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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. Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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8" GaN-on-Si Super Junction Devices for Next Generation Power Electronics - $4,521,601. The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. Stanford University.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. Research, TECO Westinghouse Motor. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Motors Research and. structure with powerful magnetic properties. Advanced Electric Vehicle Motors with Low or No Rare Earth.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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CHAN MIT “For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. , VINCENT W.S. IEEE DENNIS J.

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