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Toyota Prius and Honda Insight – Spot the difference?

by Tom Raftery on July 14, 2009 · 7 comments

in transportation

I went to Jerez today to collect the a Honda Insight which Honda offered to me to try out. They are letting me have it for a week.
Jerez is about 100km away. I drove there in our Prius and drove back in the Insight. A couple of differences struck me straightaway –

First off, the [...]

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Better Place to charge US$0.08 per eMile

by Tom Raftery on April 28, 2009 · 1 comment

in electric vehicles

I have been a fan of Better Place and their unique model around electric vehicles since I watched Shai Agassi’s presentation at the DLD conference in January 2008.
If you are unfamiliar with the Better Place model, they looked at the idea of electric vehicles and people’s ‘range anxiety’ and asked how best to solve it. [...]

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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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