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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The idea of vehicle-to-grid is that you are storing energy at the end of the distribution system, so you can absorb those peaks. I think we have 22 or 24 buses in the San Diego area, and we have another deployment underway in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where we are initially deploying 24 as well.

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Volkswagen Group shows 3 hydrogen fuel cell concepts at LA Show: Audi A7 Sportback h-tron; Golf Sportwagen HyMotion; Passat HyMotion

Green Car Congress

The ultimate goal—one that Volkswagen Group and brand executives consistently emphasize—is to enable “bumper-to-bumper” production of brand models equipped with different drive systems (gasoline, diesel, natural gas, plug-in hybrid, battery-electric and fuel cell) using the same production line. Audi A7 Sportback h-tron.

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Road Test: 2022 Toyota Mirai Limited FCEV

Clean Fleet Report

Along with Hyundai and Honda who also have sold FCEVs, since 2012 there have been 14,225 fuel cell cars sold in the United States, nearly all of those in California. Simple math says we possibly could have driven 316 miles, which is just 36 miles shy of Los Angeles to the Silicon Valley. Flash Drive/News: 2020 Hyundai Nexo FCEV.

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Road Test: 2023 Kia Niro EV Wave

Clean Fleet Report

In 340 miles of driving through Southern California counties of Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles, we averaged 4.1 The regenerative charging system converts kinetic energy into electric energy when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery. miles per kilowatt-hour (kWh), which is very efficient.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in Detroit News ).

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