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

Charged EVs

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. That’s about two thirds of the leasing cost of a LEAF nowadays. Of course, the anti-EV crowd picked up on that.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Both the battery and the fuel cell use chemical reactions to produce electricity. More significantly it must be realized that hydrogen, just like a battery, is not an energy source in itself, but simply a means of storing energy. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars? The reasons are numerous. .

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. The FIA caps the cost of a single F1 engine at around US $15 million, but some teams try to hide true costs to avoid penalties. So the performance gap remains huge, but Formula E is trying to close it. “For

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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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. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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