Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

General Motors and AT&T will bring 5G cellular connectivity to millions of GM vehicles coming off the assembly line over the next decade in the United States. GM and AT&T are collaborating to build a high performance 5G core network.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2022

Electric vehicles have the potential to be more than just transportation—by using their battery packs for supplemental home energy and grid stabilization.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company and General Motors are collaborating to pilot the use of GM electric vehicles as on-demand power sources for homes in PG&E’s service area. G&E and GM will test vehicles with bidirectional charging technology that can help safely power the essential needs of a properly equipped home.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

GM is building Bolt EV and EUV models again, amid battery replacements. Nissan Leaf battery packs help stabilize the grid in California. The infrastructure bill brings some significant spending on charging infrastructure. Tesla has fixed another braking problem over the air. And Hyundai Motor’s first U.S.-made This and.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 13, 2022

GM and Ford will work with PG&E to test bi-directional charging systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Through this early adopter opportunity, PG&E will explore how Ford’s Intelligent Backup Power technology interconnects to the electric grid, which is necessary for the truck’s battery to power the home, and how it can support customer resiliency during grid outages. —PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. OnStar and GM are now signing on as an official partner of Pecan Street Inc., Other partner companies such as Sony, Whirlpool, Oncor and Intel provided Mueller residents with forward-looking smart grid and clean energy products and services.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric announced the launch of a new pilot program today that will allow California residents to use their GM electric vehicles to act as on-demand power sources for homes. We are really excited about this innovative collaboration with GM,” PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe said.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today, FreeWire shared that it has partnered with GM Energy to help deploy the former’s ultra-fast EV chargers to commercial and fleet customers in the US. Per FreeWire founder and CEO Arcady Sosinov: We applaud the work that GM Energy is doing to drive the national energy transition and provide holistic solutions to their customers.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

The V2H Bundle includes a bidirectional charger and home charger that can let the structure go off-grid. The system also works with solar-powered homes, and GM has partnered with SunPower to create the connections. Owners can manage the power flow through the GM Energy Cloud app.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2023

GM Energy is set to release a number of EV charging and home energy storage products. V2H will be available for the first time.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2014

The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. The new installations bring GM closer to reaching its goal to increase renewable energy use globally to 125 MW by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute, 8 automakers and 15 utilities are working to develop and to demonstrate an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with smart grid technologies enabling utilities to support PEV charging regardless of location. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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InsideEVs

MARCH 18, 2024

The all-electric pop-up camper was developed in cooperation with GM as the ultimate off-grid, zero-emissions adventure vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2023

General Motors and Ford have joined a pilot project to use EVs as an alternative energy source for the electricity grid, helping to cut pollution from fossil fuels.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2023

Known as “vehicle to grid,” two-way charging works through sending energy to the grid from an EV’s battery future the auto is parked and plugged in. The PG&E grid has confronted a barrage of demanding situations from latter climate. Mark Chediak contributed to this file.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

The pilot will help EV customers align their charging needs to the time of day when it is most affordable, which can also help keep the region’s energy grid stay in balance. Managed EV Charging will make it easier for customers to switch to an EV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

Onboard solar power with 605W along with an innovative system of 6 kilowatt hours of 12V lithium battery to provide an estimated seven days of off-grid power, such as the ability to power appliances like a refrigerator/freezer for about a week. The freedom to explore any season with EarthCruiser’s insulated tri-layered pop-up roof.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of GM, is inviting utilities, energy companies and tech firms to develop Smart Grid solutions using a set of proprietary OnStar application programming (APIs). The Smart Grid set of APIs is among the first to be offered outside of the company. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 8, 2023

Bidirectional EV charging, coming soon to GM electric pickup trucks, SUVs, and Cadillacs. What is missing from this picture?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

The general principle for bidirectional charging is EVs can either feed power from a charged vehicle back into the house (vehicle-to-home or V2H) or interact with the electric grid itself (vehicle-to-grid or V2G). GM produces the Chevy Volt and GMC Hummer EV and is preparing its 2023 launch of the Silverado EV.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Emissions associated with electricity used for battery charging are based on three generation scenarios: the average United States (US) grid mix, a California (CA) average grid mix, and renewable electricity.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. I sang the praises of the car and how GM stood behind it.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

GM and Amazon could be in talks to invest in startup electric pickup-maker Rivian. A new computer model tests how a 100-percent renewable power grid would have held up to the recent polar vortex. Tech giant Qualcomm sells its Halo wireless charging business to rival WiTricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2023

Lightning eMotors has begun production of its next-generation Type A electric school bus that is built on the GM 4500 platform. In the 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Loveland, Colorado, the first orders for nearly 70 next-generation Type A electric school buses have started to move across the production floor.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2022

The pilot program will allow utility customers in California's state capital to take advantage of lower electricity rates, while helping to balance the grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 10, 2023

A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 16, 2021

Ashok Leyland acquires Switch Mobility, GM to supply electric batteries. Hitachi ABB Power Grids has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ashok Leyland and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) for an e-mobility pilot project. GM to supply electric batteries & hydrogen fuel cell systems. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Kleiner Perkins and GM Ventures led the financing, with significant growth funding from other existing investors. and Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon, have re-invested, expressing enthusiasm for the technology’s ability to allow the electrical grid to benefit consumers more broadly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

General Motors and OnStar are launching a real-world pilot of smart grid applications for electric vehicles. Through OnStar’s ATOMS infrastructure and partners’ solutions, utilities will be able to implement two Smart Grid services in the pilot: Data Gathering.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. Source: GM. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. PLC=Power Line Communications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM plans to become carbon-neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality. The use of GM’s products accounts for 75% of carbon emissions related to this commitment. The company has also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5?C, Electrification.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

General Motors (GM) is looking to accelerate the adoption of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities in EVs. A new partnership with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will investigate integrating bidirectional charging into the grid to improve energy distribution.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As electric cars move towards the smart grid, there’s been a lot of worry about the cars overstraining the grid. But at least for now, GM and PG&E are united on the answer: Not a problem, guys. GM is making the upcoming 2011.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“The grid can’t handle EVs!” Normally, it’s us EV enthusiasts and EV media who have to debunk all of the FUD. ” they say. “Batteries are toxic, and you can’t recycle them!” ” they go to next.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2022

received its first 150 electric delivery vehicles from BrightDrop, the technology startup from General Motors (GM) focused on decarbonizing last-mile delivery. The delivery comes just months after BrightDrop’s commercialization of the Zevo 600 as the fastest vehicle to market in GM’s history. FedEx Corp. Earlier post.).

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