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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Those arguments are not yet settled. But big automakers like.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

You could do V2G through the DC port of the vehicle—this is what we are doing with school buses here in California, where our charging station converts AC to DC and then connects to the DC port of the vehicle to provide power. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid.

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Hyundai and Kia continuing to develop heat pump technology for EVs

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation provided new details on their enhanced heat pump system, deployed in Hyundai and Kia’s global electric vehicle (EV) line-up to maximize their all-electric driving range in low temperatures. The heat pump system has now been developed further for new EVs from Hyundai and Kia.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV). an explosion of a hydrogen filling station in Sandvika, Norway, injuring two people and causing Hyundai and Toyota to cease sales of their FCEV in that country [6,7]. The reasons are numerous. .

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Feature: Are Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars The Future?

Clean Fleet Report

In fact, when BEVs were first being introduced, hydrogen powered cars were seen as not being far behind. Hydrogen Vs. Battery Powered Cars. They still have a long way to go before catching up on fossil fuel-powered cars in convenience of fueling. Another incident occurred in Sandvika, Norway. BEVs offer advantages.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network. Detroit News ).

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