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Candela’s hydrofoil electric speedboats set new world record with international voyage

Baua Electric

The round trip from Sweden to Finland and back covered a distance of 150 nautical miles (172 miles or 278 km). A similarly-sized gasoline-powered chase boat followed along with a camera crew to document the voyage, and it spent around 750€ on fuel stops along the way.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $1.8M additional funding to further UCSD microgrid project; energy storage, EV charging and V2G services are components

Green Car Congress

The objectives of the Renewable Energy Charging of Electric Vehicles are to: Document that electric vehicle (EV) emission levels below 130 gCO 2 e/mile can be achieved with renewable distributed energy resources as the charging source. Demonstrate that a DC-linked chargeport is more efficient than an AC-linked chargeport.

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SAE Hybrid Standards Committee: Works In Progress For 2009

Green Car Congress

Instead, fuel usage and watt-hours per mile will be stated separately, with the baseline charging assumption being one energy storage charge per day for each vehicle being tested. The standard, which is based on a similar document developed by the US. for reverse energy flow, e.g. vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-home.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. Generally, theyll plug in at night.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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