Comments on: The Father of Vehicle-To-Grid Charges Toward Commercialization http://gigaom.com/cleantech/from-research-to-reality-using-electric-vehicles-to-regulate-the-grid/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jim http://gigaom.com/cleantech/from-research-to-reality-using-electric-vehicles-to-regulate-the-grid/#comment-563583 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:02:34 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=57784#comment-563583 I brought this up with my utility and Nissan. Neither seem ready to even learn more or consider it yet. After we get 1 million plugins on the road it will become a top consideration.

Regulating the GRID only takes small burst and return of energy and doesn’t depleat or charge the battery, they just tickle them. Who would’n t want that.

]]> By: Managing Electric Vehicles Like A Symphony With Software http://gigaom.com/cleantech/from-research-to-reality-using-electric-vehicles-to-regulate-the-grid/#comment-33228 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:02:11 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=57784#comment-33228 [...] charging projects are research experiments and involve only a couple cars. Even a project from the so-called father of vehicle-to-grid technology — Willett Kempton, professor and lead researcher of V2G research at the University [...]

]]> By: Willett Kempton http://gigaom.com/cleantech/from-research-to-reality-using-electric-vehicles-to-regulate-the-grid/#comment-33227 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:01:30 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=57784#comment-33227 Of course, driver needs have to have the highest priority. This is how we’ve proposed to do it since our first publication (see Fig 1 in Kempton and Letendre 1997, at http://www.udel.edu/V2G/docs/Kempton-Letendre-97.pdf ).

]]> By: nialljmcshane http://gigaom.com/cleantech/from-research-to-reality-using-electric-vehicles-to-regulate-the-grid/#comment-33226 Fri, 21 May 2010 02:52:47 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=57784#comment-33226 In addition to the concerns cited here about the impact of V2G on battery life, there is an added concern about consumer buy-in. EV range is already a worry for many EV owners and that is why an infrastructure of charging stations is so important. Given that, why would I as a consumer allow the utility to draw power from my vehicle if there is a likelihood that I need to use the vehicle and it will not be fully charged. What policies will be in place to ensure that consumers have a minimum charge threshold, which they can set, below which the vehicle will not respond to V2G signals?

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