Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. And these EVs are powered mostly by renewable energy. Domestic market not shabby either.

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