One day it could be common to have a home battery to store energy from a solar panel, and some battery makers and startups showed off their home batteries at DistribuTECH this week.…
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Vehicle-to-grid tech to connect only 100K cars by 2017
One day, electric car batteries will be used as energy storage for the grid. But that day will be pretty far in the future. According to a report from Pike Research, only about 100,000 electric cars will have this so-called vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, capability by 2017.…
Read MoreNRG Energy embraces vehicle-to-grid tech
Clean power giant NRG Energy will partner on a vehicle-to-grid project that was developed at the University of Delaware and will use parked electric vehicles as grid batteries, helping stabilize the grid, and offering electric vehicle owners money.…
Read MoreHow vehicle-to-grid technology could get past the pilot stage
U.S. startup Nuvve is setting its sights on the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) market with a 30-car project in Denmark that it says will sell plug-in car battery power to help stabilize the grid. Can the model scale?…
Read MoreHow vehicle-to-grid technology could get past pilot stage
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology — using parked electric vehicles (EVs) as grid batteries — is a no-brainer. Many cars are parked most of…
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GridPoint, the Arlington, Va.-based startup that’s raised more than $220 million for a broad — some say, sprawling — approach to the…
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Read MoreFord Launches Vehicle-to-Grid Software Trial for Plug-in Hybrids
It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of big automakers, but in the coming rollout…
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Panasonic to Cut 15,000 Jobs, or 5 Percent of Its Workforce; facing tough times the consumer electronics giant will also close 27…
Read MoreDaimler, Enel to Launch Electric Car Network in Italy
Luxury automaker Daimler (s DAI) of Germany together with Italy’s largest electricity producer, Enel (s ENEL), plan to roll out more than…
Read MoreDuke, Progress to Test Smart-Charging Electric Cars
Duke Energy Carolinas and Progress Energy, two major utilities in the Southeast, have partnered to test a fleet of smart-charging plug-in electric Priuses in what they say will be the country’s first interstate electric car-charging scheme involving multiple utilities.…
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