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LG Chem and Eguana partner on Li-ion residential energy storage system for North America

Green Car Congress

Eguana Technologies, a supplier of power control and conversion solutions for distributed energy storage systems and Li-ion manufacturer LG Chem have combined their technologies under a multi-year agreement to deliver a certified, fully integrated energy storage system (ESS) Eguana calls “AC Battery”. Basic product capacity is 6.4

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The Many Benefits of V2G Charging

EV Connect

V2G tech is a subset of bidirectional charging technology, which is any type of charging hardware and software that allows an electric vehicle to pass its stored energy to another destination. V2G technology specifically allows you to pass that energy back to the power grid, usually in exchange for credits against your utility bills.

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

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

The Truth About Cars

Ford, Honda, and BMW have announced plans to create a new “vehicle-to-grid company” that’s aimed at standardizing vehicle charging via a singular platform. The service also seeks to return excess energy to the electrical grid, effectively converting EVs into publicly shared batteries.

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The Cash Back Hybrid

Plug In Partners

Collectively, Wellinghoff proposed, the batteries in millions of PHEV s could provide five distinct benefits: lowering greenhouse-gas emissions, improving urban air quality, saving consumers money, bolstering power-grid reliability, and reducing oil imports. How would those results be achieved?

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REV delivers 1st of 4 battery-electric vehicles with V2G capability to TARDEC

Green Car Congress

The vehicles will make use of REV’s bi-directional charging capabilities as part of TARDEC’s micro-grid demonstration. The TARDEC order includes three REV 300ACXs and one REV 300AZX based on the Ford Escape and Ford F150 platforms, respectively. Earlier post.)

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Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

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Air Liquide Industrial US LP, will receive $1.5 Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.