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Coulomb and GridPoint Demonstrate Smart Grid Enabled Smart Charging Station

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and Coulomb Technologies demonstrated smart grid enabled smart charging stations for electric vehicles during the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach. The networked infrastructure solution can rapidly adapt to critical grid events while prioritizing the need to provide fuel for electric vehicles. GridPoint, Inc.

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GMs Approach to Integrating Smart Plug-ins to the Smart Grid Leverages Emerging Standards and OnStar

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GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Source: GM.

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GridPoint Smart Charging Software to Support eTec/Nissan LEAF Deployment

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a provider of smart grid software, will provide its latest generation of electric vehicle management software ( earlier post ), Smart Charging 3.0, The company made the announcement at the Plug-In 2009 Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, CA. Tags: Plug-ins Smart Grid. GridPoint, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Fords View on Electrification Enablers; Looking for Battery Commonization

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Utilities, vehicle-to-home (V2H), and vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Key for success here is working with utilities and emerging standards for messaging and communications between the vehicle and the grid and utility. Ford is a little bearish on the concept of V2G at this point, he said. Utility partnership and renewable power generation.

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Consumers Want Plug-in Hybrids, Industry Survey Finds

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Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Simply put, as the first sentence of the article states, [W]hen consumers understand what plug-in hybrids are, they want them.

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Smart charging to boost Nissan LEAF development

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The Plug-In 2009 Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, California, was marked with an announcement by GridPoint, a provider of smart grid software, that it will provide its latest generation electric vehicle management software to support the deployment of the Nissan LEAF. Smart charging 3.0

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Closer look at smart charging

Green Cars News

Another day passes at the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach, with another glimpse of how we may be driving the vehicles of the future. GrindPoint Inc and Coulomb Technologies joined forces to demonstrate smart grid enabled smart charging stations for electric vehicles.