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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. 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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University of Nottingham leading 3-year, £830K project on automotive power electronics

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The University of Nottingham (UK) is leading a 3-year, £830,000 (US$1.1-million) million) research project on power electronics—the EPSRC Challenge Network in Automotive Power Electronics. The Network will also compile and maintain a register of community capability, capital equipment and facilities.

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Proterra introduces new high power interoperable EV charging technology; J1772- and J3105-compliant, OCPP

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At the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Bus & Paratransit Conference, electric bus manufacturer Proterra has introduced high-power charging options to make a 100% electric bus fleet more easily achievable. Proterra is introducing a new suite of high power DC chargers that comply with these standards.

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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology vying to establish international center for solid-state batteries

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SDSMT hosted hundreds of industry representatives, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and fellow academics on 12-13 September in a conference on the topic. Some of the industry leaders attending the conference include Ford (attending remotely), Swiss company LafargeHolcim, Garmin International, Caterpillar Inc.,

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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IEEE Power & Energy Society president. Lambert was the IEEE Power & Energy Society 's 2020–2021 president. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Past president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Frank Lambert. Life senior member, 69; died 27 July.

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U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

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Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. The fuel cells, based upon patented technology developed by professor Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) in the A. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. 440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills.

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