Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

EV owners should be urged to charge at night to save not only money and the power grid but “ the world ,” a news headline cries out. Not so fast, exclaim researchers at Stanford University, who state that charging EVs during the day is actually cheaper, better for the grid, and healthier for the environment.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Future generations will increasingly rely on the grid to power their vehicles. Consequently, power grid stability and resilience have caught the public’s attention as the demand for electricity and energy-consuming technologies continues to rise. According to the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

ARPA-E currently has six main funded programs underway ( topic ): Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS). Neither the Department of Energy nor ARPA-E endorses or sponsors the individuals, organizations and/or technologies identified.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night. See What Carmakers Say about PHEVs for the latest.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. rectifier and antenna , reflects how each element converts the electromagnetic waves into direct-current electricity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. The team will. field trials.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Which means we would be extremely vunerable to Bolivia for our transportation needs, to a degree which we have never been to a foreign country.

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