Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Ford has into a partnership with Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) to develop advanced lithium-ion battery system to power Ford’s first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) beginning in 2012. Ford’s current demonstration fleet of Escape plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is using JCS Li-ion packs. Earlier post.).
Cars That Think
JULY 20, 2021
A 2017 study estimated that about 685,000 Americans who live at home and have medical insurance are electricity dependent; of that group, roughly one fifth are vulnerable to even short power outages of 3 to 4 hours. Any plan that could significantly alter demand forecasting must be considered with the power grid in mind.
My Energi
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
However, it scores highly on stealth; I mean its a motorcycle, you could drive this thing through a shopping mall and up an escalator to make quick escapes and to help you to travel the city reasonably undetected. Let’s face it, the power grid is always down in the murky setting of a post nuclear zombie movie or game.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 24, 2009
An intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid has been unveiled today courtesy of carmaker, Ford. The first of the specially equipped plug-in hybrids has been delivered to American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2010
has delivered the first of what it calls “Ancillary Power Vehicles” (APVs)—batter-electric vehicles with a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability—to the US Army Tank Automotive Research Center (TARDEC) in Hawaii this week in partnership with Honeywell Aerospace. Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles, Inc.,
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 30, 2009
The grid today could handle many millions of EVs charging late at night when rates are lowest. The garage studies the integration of the electric vehicle into the power grid system where it either charges or discharges to accommodate the owner’s electricity needs. To be honest, we’ll be very lucky to see that many.
Plug In Partners
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Xcel Energy announces six-month test drive of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles DENVER - Six plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEVs ) will be on the road by the end of 2007 as part of a demonstration test of vehicle-to-grid ( V2G ) technology by Xcel Energy. With every U.S. in Boulder, Colo.; V2Green Inc. in Seattle, Wash.; and the U.S.
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