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Tesla Model 3 production, self-driving car pros for electric cars, and battery power grid backups: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Self-driving cars will provide numerous benefits to electric cars. PG&E partners with Tesla to provide power grid backups. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. In the last week of June, Tesla built 5,000 Model 3 electric cars—a. Tesla Model 3 production reaches a milestone.

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Electric cars could ‘overload power grid’ warns French energy firm

Green Cars News

No sooner has it launched than the Renault ZOE electric car is being blamed with threatening France’s power grid. In an article in the Daily Mail today, there is a stark warning from the head of R&D at French power infrastructure firm RTE, that the rising prominence of electric cars on the road could put [.].

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Lucid Air timeline, Nissan electric future, Bolt EV deals: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Why did our power grid get cleaner than expected in 2019? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 17, 2020. debut of the Nissan Ariya concept, in Las Vegas at CES, Green Car Reports sampled the e-4orce twin-motor and.

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The Many Benefits of V2G Charging

EV Connect

A 2020 Consumer Reports study , for instance, noted that EV drivers spend 60% less on average to fuel their cars than drivers of similar gas-powered vehicles. 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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California targets one million plug-in vehicles

Green Cars News

One million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on the road and one third of electricity to come from renewable sources – they are the ambitious goals of four California state agencies and the independent power grid for California’s energy future in 2020. Among its targets is to develop enough charging stations at home, work and in [.].

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

12 ] Batteries are heavy, expensive and slow to recharge, so even with the expected gradual improvement in this technology, it will be a long time, if ever, before vehicles powered only by batteries (BEVs) can match the range and refueling convenience of a dual fuel PHEVLER. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [

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Researchers to explore electric car impact on grid

Green Cars News

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame are exploring how the wider use of electric cars will impact on US’ power grid.

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