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

Cars That Think

Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers. In the 1990s, batteries had far less capacity than they do today, and for the small community of EV users, the prospect of running out of juice and becoming stranded was very real.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. In the UK, experiments are.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

The tractor is going to be for the new 35 acre farm that he has purchased year ago. I guess if you are paying 10 lakh more for 100 km of added range, you must really have long distance in mind when you purchase an MG. He tells me that PPG originally developed the Electro Deposition technology for Henry Ford’s Model T.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Were told that the agreement includes nods of acceptance from the likes of Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Eon, Vattenfall, EDF, Npower, Endesa and Enel, and while theres no time frame for when itll be introduced, were pretty stoked to hear that at least something has been decided upon. Neutral ???? @

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. gallon Speculawyer on DOE announces $41.9