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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Bolivia is no friend of the USA. This may be the lowest cost energy storage solution just because we are going to make the batteries anyway. February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects. Most of the worlds Lithium is located in Bolivia, 50% plus.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). No single vehicle does it all even in todays petrol world.