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

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. In principle, this problem might have been solved with software to govern the charging and discharging.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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