Archive for the 'Grid' Category
Electric Cars and Utility Companies
We all cant wait to get into our Chevy Volts and drive off on electric power. After all, what could be better than not using gasoline for most driving needs? We are aware the source of energy for the Volts battery will be the electric grid. All indications are that the energy costs [...]
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Interview: V2Green CEO David Kaplan, Leading Vehicle-to-Grid Startup
V2Green is a new start-up company based in Seattle who’s main focus is building software and hardware for electric vehicles to communicate with the grid and utilities companies. I had to opportunity to interview V2Green’s CEO David Kaplan. The full interview follows the post, can be heard here, downloaded, or retrieved as a podcast from [...]
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“Project Better Place” Electric Car Charging Company Launches with $200 Million in Funding
A new start-up company announced its launch yesterday. This company is called “Project Better Place. Their idea is to create a subscription-based charging system for plug-in electric cars. This system would operate like a cell phone network, driver’s could roam anywhere, plug-in and charge their cars where it is convenient. They [...]
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250 Plug-in Electric Car Charging Stations to be Installed Across the UK
In a sign of times to come, and an indication that the UK is ahead of the PHEV pack, energy giant EDF and recharging station producer Elektromotive are together installing a series of automobile charging stations across the country. The plan is to have 250 such stations in place by April 2008.
In some commonwealths, local [...]
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V2Green: A Start-up Company Making Electric Car and Grid Software
A Seattle startup called V2Green has been recently profiled. The company is headed by David Kaplan who wrote SQL for Microsoft.
The product they are developing is a software system which will allow electric cars (when they arrive) and the utility companies to communicate with one another through the power grid. The system will [...]
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New York Times Article on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)
An idea that is invariably invoked when people discuss plug-in electric cars like the Volt is vehicle-to-grid technology. (see previous post)
The general concept is that when there is a large fleet of plugins on the road, users will plug them in at night during low demand and charge them. During the day, when demand [...]
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GM Pushes To Control Electric Utility Rates
Here we’ve just finished posting about how much it will cost to drive the Volt. Some interesting comments have come back. I’m working on getting some more battery specifics and will report back to you very soon.
In the meantime, GM is part of a large coalition of heavy electric users in the state of Ohio. [...]
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