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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Building Computing Energy Gadgets Investing Smart Grid Transportation Travel ADVERTISEMENT Books that Matter Know Your Eco-Labels Hurray for the Bad Economy! Chrysler used this for their EPIC Minivan and could charge at a rate of about one mile per minute. I like to use the example of someone driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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