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

Cars That Think

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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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Doing so might be practical in the future, but the math doesn’t add up at present. It’s possible to construct off-grid charging stations, but they come with hassles, such as storing power when the sun doesn’t shine. Many wonder, “why not install solar panels on an EV’s roof?”

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The Importance of Managed EV Charging

EV Match

Demand response programs are an increasingly popular and inventive ways for utilities to ensure grid stability during peak usage. Whenever the grid usage is at its peak, the utility notifies the customer of a demand response event. V2G, where the “G” stands for “grid”, re-directs power from the EV back to the grid.

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. . EVs present a new option, an effective option in the race to save lives after a catastrophe.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

So, who better to have written the newly released book The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight , which presents a history of blindness that touches on events and advances in social, political, artistic, and technological realms? The way a Braille cell works is there’s as many as six dots arranged on a two-by-three grid.

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Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch

EV Central

The boot is manually opened and basic in its presentation. The 77kWh battery pack is claimed to consume juice at an average 15.7-17.5kWh/100km Nor does MEB provide vehicle to load or vehicle to grid charging. There are overhead grabs, small door bins and seat-back pockets and two USB-Cs mounted in the centre console.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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