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Project Get Ready Initiative for Plug In Cars
Want to help the country meet or beat President Obama's goal of 1 million plug-in cars by 2015? Perhaps, by working with like-minded folks at the community level to knock down barriers and help set up infrastructure, you can. Project Get Ready is a non-profit initiative that has emerged from the Rocky Mountain Institute's (RMI) Smart Garage Summit to help accomplish just that. They've already signed up three cities and are looking for more. - Read More
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Topics : Electrical
Electric motor more efficient
an electric motor is a 90 percent efficient device, while an internal combustion engine, if it hits 35 percent is one of the best engineered engines in the world.
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Topics : Energy Efficiency
Fuel cell vehicles generation capacity
200 million fuel cell vehicles has 4 tmies the generating capacity of the entire US power grid
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Topics : Hydrogen Energy
Some data on Li production
We all know that Li is a key component of electric cars (batteries) so it is worthwhile knowing where we are gonna get the Li from...this is an instructive article - Read More
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Topics : Energy Storage
Electric cars could shift the load curve
...millions of plug-in hybrid / electric cars, each of which might use elec from the grid. If millions of the cars did sell, they would mostly recharge at night, which would change the shape of the ?load curve??instead of households consuming peak amounts of power during the day and far less at night, consumption would be at a more constant level across 24-hour period, which favors technologies such as nuclear that operate around the clock with low marginal costs.
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Topics : Automobiles
Eliica - Unusual Car with an Unusual Name
Eliica is an unusual, exotic 8-wheeled electric car . the Eliica idea has been kicking around since 2003 from the mind of Dr. Hiroshi Shimizu, who's been building electric cars for 20 years. The car is a project from Keio University. - Read More
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Topics : Automobiles