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Hitachi Develops Lithium-ion Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Positioning of the new Li-ion cells for PHEVs. Hitachi will also display its PHEV lithium-ion batteries at the 1 st International Rechargeable Battery Expo, which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from 3-5 March 2010. Source: Hitachi. Click to enlarge. Hitachi and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

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Australia clears the way for EVs to help save the grid with V2G this summer

Baua Electric

While we’re seeing more of them come out with this capability, as of now there are only a few available in Australia that currently have this capability – the venerable Nissan Leaf EV and the Mitsubishi Outlander and Eclipse Cross PHEVs. Electrek’s Take For us EV nerds, V2G has been a dream for a long time. Yes, really).

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Obama orders GHG cuts for Federal Agencies; 50% of all new agency vehicles to be ZEV or PHEV by 2025

Green Car Congress

Planning for agency fleet composition such that by 31 December 2020, zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) or plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) account for 20% of all new agency passenger vehicle acquisitions. By 31 December 2025, ZEVs and PHEVs should account for 50% of all new agency passenger vehicles.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). gallon Speculawyer on DOE announces $41.9