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

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. It is something we are studying for the future as one avenue to adding diversity to the transportation energy mix. said in a statement.

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