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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 adds 20 kW Combined Charging System (CCS) fast charger to EVSE portfolio

Green Car Congress

ABB has broadened its support of the new Combined Charging System (CCS) standard with the expansion of its 4 th generation fast charging product portfolio with the introduction of the Terra multi-standard DC fast charging station 23. Its 20 kW design allows for quick and easy installation on widely available 3 x 32A low-cost grid connections.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

Cars That Think

An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. Amplification occurs because a relatively small DC control current can modify a much larger AC load current. Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

Cars That Think

These networks include cables that connect wind farms to the shore and supply electricity to our power grid infrastructure (Figure 3). The foundations for these structures are expensive to construct and difficult to install in deep sea environments, as the cables have to be buried in the seafloor. Chrysochos et al., 1913–1921, 2018.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. Fortunately there are companies at the Plug-In Conference who exceed expectations and one of them is Coulomb out of Campbell, California. They will own a big part of this future because they were first and their model is brilliant.

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Overflow crowd at DC plug-in conference

Plugs and Cars

News of oil by the barrel and gas by the gallon reaching new highs had been dominating TV and print, so it was perhaps not surprising that the Google/Brookings Plug-in Electric Vehicle Conference saw overflow crowds. The state of the grid was discussed by advocates and utility executives. Tags: plug-in conference.

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