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Vehicle-to-grid
In the future "smart" electrical grids will both charge our electric vehicles and occasionally use some of the power stored in the vehicles to help maintain the stability of the electrical grid. This vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology will help reduce the occurrence of electrical brownouts and blackouts.
News
- 2012.09.25 - Detroit Leading U.S. Development of New Vehicle-to-Grid Technology | Xconomy
- 2012.06.12 - Smart Grid: Forget vehicle-to-grid and think vehicle-to-home instead?
- 2012.03.09 - BBC News - Tsunami - Nissan's converter enables an electric car to power your house
- 2011.10.27 - V2G Technology: Electric Cars Become Power-Grid Batteries - Scientific American Blog Network
- 2008.03.17 - What’s a “Smart Grid” and why’s it coming to Boulder, Colorado?
- 2007.12.27 - How Electric Cars Could Save the Grid. Interesting video about linear motor in a water park ride.
- 2007.09.12 - PG&E and Tesla to Research Smart Recharging Vehicle-to-Grid Technology
- 2007.07.00 - Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (download e-book). Examines the technical and economic feasibility of achieving a U.S. economy with zero-CO2 emissions without nuclear power.
- 2005.06.06 - Seattle Vehicle to Grid Symposium
Videos
- 2008.04.22 - Plug-in Hybrids Power the Electrical Grid - PeakMoment - Professor Andy Frank's vision is for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to be charged on green, renewable power from solar panels built into the roofs of our parking lots. This would allow the vehicles to be used as mobile batteries, contributing solar power back to the electrical grid when needed, thereby helping to "load balance" the demand. At home, the same vehicle batteries can help power a house (vehicle-to-house V2H), or feed energy back to the grid (vehicle-to-grid V2G).
- 2007.08.21 - V2G vehicle to grid potential
- 2007.06.15 - Google.org RechargeIT: Plug-in Hybrids