By Jeremy Gross on July 7, 2010 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , AT&T , cisco , Department of Energy , electric car , electricity pricing , energy audits , Energy Information Administration , Energy Management , GE , Google , mega city vehicle , Microsoft , national institute of standards and technology , NIST , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , parks associates , peak load demand , PHEV , plug-in , reduce energy usage , renewable energy , smart appliances , smart grid , smart grid applications , smart grid news , smart grid trends , smart meters
Our nation’s electricity infrastructure will be upgraded into an efficient, secure, reliable, adaptable machine! But the slow smart grid evolution will be achieved with smaller steps. What does short term smart grid future look like? Read on for current smart grid trends.
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2010 will see extended range plug in hybrids — as well as all electric vehicles start to hit the road in significant numbers. The plugin hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a primarily an electric vehicle with a small non-electric motor to extend their range; it is more of an electric vehicle and less of a gas powered vehicle than current hybrids. This post examines some of the main players in this emerging electic vehicle sector.
By Jerry_Toman on July 23, 2009 airplane , assembly line , automobile , Car culture , car-pooling , catalytic refining , coal , electric vehicle , EV , Ford , General Motors , global warming , Great Lakes , green economy , horse , hybrids , ICE , internal combustion engine , interstate highway system , invisible hand , light rail , low density housing , minibus , Mississippi River , Ohio , passenger van , petroleum industry , PHEV , Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle , public transportation sector , radar warning system , River Boats , road hazard detection radar , rush hour pricing , Standard Oil , steam engine , steam-engine propulsion , stop-and-go traffic , Streetcar , suburb , telecommuting , tin-lizzies , traffic congestion , traffic jam , trains , transportation system , Work-at-home Wednesday
By Jerry J. Toman, ScM
This, the fourth article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the issue of our car centric culture; how it has shaped our society and on ways we can shake ourselves free from this unsustainable dependence on spread out cities built around single occupancy vehicles (or SOVs).