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Mitsubishi Motors teams with USC on Smart Grid Living Laboratory Project; 12 i-MiEVs

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(MMNA) is supporting the University of Southern California (USC) and the Viterbi School of Engineering as it develops a special campus-wide Smart Grid “Living Laboratory” project including the use of Mitsubishi i-MiEV 100% electric vehicles.

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Endesa develops prototype charger enabling electric vehicle to return power to the grid; hoping for deployment by 2020

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Endesa, Spain’s largest utility, has developed a prototype V2G (Vehicle to Grid) charger that enables electric vehicles to return stored power to the grid. Endesa will use the Mitsubishi i-MiEV to carry out the trials with the V2G charger.

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Mitsubishi companies and NEDO to collaborate on smart grid and V2X research project

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Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid research project incorporating electric-vehicle-to-X (e.g., MC, MMC and MELCO have worked on Smart Grid systems to utilize these batteries since last March. home, factory, etc.)

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Smart grid students test electric car infrastructure

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Two students from Durham University are to set off on a 600 mile round trip to Cardiff tomorrow as they demonstrate the possibilities of smart grid technology and low carbon power.

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Mitsubishi Motors premiering new fuel-efficient Mirage and Concept PX-MiEV II plug-in hybrid; smart house

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Two MMC cars will make their world premiere at the show: the fuel-efficient Mirage and the Concept PX-MiEV II plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Concept PX-MiEV II. MMC’s plug-in hybrid system fuses EV technology derived from the i-MiEV with a small conventional engine—a 2.0L The Mirage features a 1.0L

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Ecometrica analysis pegs average UK EV emissions at 75 gCO2/km; varies by country

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However, this figure is only correct for the UK, the company notes, as electric vehicle emissions calculated in this way are dependent on the electricity grid mixture of the specific country. He then took government data on the UK grid carbon intensity and applied this to the electric car efficiency. see figure below).

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Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada and Hydro-Québec Partner in Canadas Largest Electric Vehicle Project

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MMSCAN) and Hydro-Québec will collaborate to put up to 50 all-electric i-MiEV passenger cars on the streets of the City of Boucherville, an independent municipality and a suburb of Montreal, in the largest Canadian project yet fielded to integrate, test, and evaluate all-electric vehicles on urban streets under real-world conditions.

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