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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Battling a non-compliant DC charger somewhere in rural France This means any public charger I want to use, I’ll need to register with each individual company. All of this wastes time. We drive out of our way to reach a fast DC charger. Then it refuses to DC charge. Why’s the car not accepting DC charge?

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

The panels generate DC current that varies with the solar power. The inverter converts the DC solar into AC power that can power the house or be directed back into the Grid as well as connecting up the Battery packs that uses 48 Volt DC. . Your power comes from the grid as 240 Volts AC. Octopus – The clever bit.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. Reply Neutral Haikibutsu @ Apr 19th 2009 4:31PM It would be better if there was a 7 point or more: 3 for power and ground, and 4 for a USB-like connection to tell you things like car status, power, etc. Is this the Zune HD?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. So is the management in Washinton DC.

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