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BMW Group Technology Office USA and Tendril to demonstrate electric vehicle and smart energy home integration

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Tendril, provider of a cloud-based energy management platform, and the BMW Group Technology Office USA are partnering to build out a demonstration smart energy home in Mountain View, Calif. High availability through automated failover via redundant or replicated service instances. —Adrian Tuck, CEO at Tendril.

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Hertz adds smart fortwo EVs to rental fleet, partners with Starwood Hotels on Hertz Global EV program

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The Hertz Corporation and smart USA, a subsidiary of Penske Automotive Group, Inc., The smart fortwo electric drive will be available for rent through Connect by Hertz car sharing in New York City beginning 15 December. Series production begins in 2012 for sale through smart USA’s dealer network.

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ARPA-E awarding up to $24M to 10 projects to support advanced nuclear power plants

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Nuclear power generates nearly 20% of US electricity, delivering reliable, low-emission baseload power to the grid. A quantitative assessment will be done on the continuous load following capability of the proposed system that would be capable of sharing the grid with substantial renewable resources such as wind and solar.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. As part of the fluorinated solutions business group of Orbia, a publicly traded global corporation with total revenues of $8.7 Earlier post.)

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Opinion: Why Lithium Will See Another Price Spike This Fall

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Electrical Grid Connections. While future demand from the automotive industry is significant, the real game changer for the lithium industry may be electrical grid storage. Grid storage is designed on a variety of scales, each with a different price point. New Entrants: Where It Gets Really Interesting.

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EV Charging Industry Protocols and Standards

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It is an international, open-source, vendor-independent standard which is available for free. The protocol can be used to communicate a real-time prediction of the local electricity grid capacity to the charge point operator. enabling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communications. OSCP facilitates capacity-based smart charging of EVs.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Promote electric vehicle adoption by increasing access to charging infrastructure and supporting the development of plug-in electric vehicles that are as accessible, available, and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. National Grid. Maui Electric. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. New York State.

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