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vehicle to grid

Ford discusses their Electric Vehicle and smart grid integration plans

by Tom Raftery on January 13, 2010 · 8 comments

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Just before Christmas I had a chat with Ford’s head of battery electric vehicle applications, Greg Frenette. We discussed how Ford has been working with utilities and industry organisations to ready its electric vehicles for deep integration into smart grids.
It was fascinating for me to see just how far Ford have proceeded with their thinking [...]

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Ford’s thinking on Electric Vehicles

by Tom Raftery on October 6, 2009 · 11 comments

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Photo of Thomas Edison and Henry ford courtesy of Ford Motor Company
Recently I spoke with Greg Frenette, the manager of Ford’s Electric Vehicle program and he filled me in on just how long Ford have been working on electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technologies. Although not as long as may be indicated in the photo above, [...]

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A giant distributed battery for the country?

by Tom Raftery on July 22, 2008 · 4 comments

in demand response, smart grid, vehicle to grid

Photo Credit geognerd
Having just taken delivery today of my Toyota Prius and having just read the Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) fabulous report on Vehicle to Grid possibilities, I decided it was time to address a post to this topic.
First off, what is vehicle to grid? Vehicle to Grid (or V2G) is the idea that plug-in [...]

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