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GM heat pump recovers energy from EV battery to power heating & propulsion while helping conserve range: Ultium Energy Recovery

Green Car Congress

Covered by 11 patents and four publications, the development of Ultium energy recovery traces its inception back to GM’s first EV, the EV1, in the late 1990s, when GM engineers first developed an EV heat pump. The Ultium Platform can recover and store this waste heat from the Ultium propulsion system.

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AeroVironment Awarded Patent for Electric Vehicle Energy Data Management and Control; Web-based System Solution for EV Battery Optimization

Green Car Congress

A device employing this technology could create and store a performance profile for the EV and charger. The technology behind AV’s electric vehicle charging solutions emerged after AV's substantial contributions to the development of the GM Impact, the concept car for General Motors’ EV1, the first modern electric car.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

Problem #2: It needs to be noted (especially by new drivers) that the electrons don't just flow from many of these public J-plugs when you plug into the car as they do for the previous generation - EV1s and RAV4 EVs. A charge station appears at the grocery store you frequent. You plug it in, but nothing happens.

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

Cars That Think

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Forerunner of the famous EV1, the Impact was regarded as the most advanced electric car of its day, thanks to its solid-state power controls, induction motor, and integrated charger.

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

V2H technology enables homeowners to store electricity in their EV batteries for use when they need it. “I worked for an electric utility in the ’90s and performed hurricane restoration duties in a GM EV1. Which opens up the question of “Could a VPP be anything that stores and provides energy?

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The "Spirit of DC" -- Back in AZ and Team Building with Tucson Clean Cities, Bookmans, starting mid-January 2010.

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

And also, Bob Oldfather of Bookmans www.Bookmans.com - a dynamic Tucson Clean Cities Coalition member, who has installed, or will install, six Coloumb challenging stations at all six Booksmans (three stores in Tucson, two in Phoenix and one in Flagstaff). Note: Bob's love of EVs goes back to having two GM EV1s.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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