Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2009

The US Department of Energy’s announcement of a grant for the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure every undertaken has been welcomed with open arms by keen electric car supporter, Nissan. “This is a major step in promoting zero-emission mobility in the United States,&# he said.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. Many continue to pay more attention to far-off hydrogen fuel cells than to this immediate solution.

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APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars.

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