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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. When utilities considered storage technology at all in the succeeding decades, it was generally in the form of pumped-storage hydropower, an expensive piece of infrastructure that could be built only in hilly terrain.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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Going forward, GM plans to spend proportionally less of its marketing budget on the corporate identity and more on the vehicle brands. In April 2009, Consumer Reports recommended only 17% of the GM cars they tested while they recommended 70% of the Fords. Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI). Earlier post.).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. plants so that they use energy more efficiently. Corporation, Columbia. Electron Energy. Corporation). Corporation). energy density over existing systems by an order of. This will allow a. The team will.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. At the hub of the system would be a “smart electricity grid&# that allows electricity to flow where it is needed most and that dissipates energy spikes as weather systems sweep through.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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Speaking: Tesla General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Brandon Erhart, Board Chair Robyn Denholm, CEO Elon Musk, and other executives and analysts 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting held on Thursday, June 13 Brandon Erhart: Welcome to Texas, the home of Tesla. Second, our founder and CEO, Elon Musk will provide a presentation.

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