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The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle in Japan can now send power back into a house. They say it’ll power a Japanese house for two days (which probably translates to 12 hours for power-hungry US homes.) But still. This is amazing technology. Just the things for blackouts, and for smoothing out power in the grid. [...] CleanTechnica has the details. As created by the legendary Gordon Murray, who designed winning Formula 1 cars and the McLaran F1. Gas 2.0 has the specs. Denmark gets it. 34% of the their energy is renewable and their grid can handle it.Now they are testing having electric vehicle owners sell excess power to the grid. CleanTechnica has the details BMW, Siemens,and the German government have teamed together to create contactless inductive charging for electric vehicles, no plugging in needed. Even better, it’s two-way. The EVs can send power back into the grid too. [Michelin], the tire company has decided to develop a fuel cell. That’s right, a tire company developing a hydrogen fuel cell which will go inside a FAM F-City car in France. This will be the first fuel cell vehicle in France to win certification to drive on its roads. The FAM F-City will run [...] Kinetic energy stored from trains braking has been used in a proof on concept test in Spain to charge electric vehicles. How perfect is that? Drive your EV to the station. Take the train to work. When you return, your EV will be recharged and waiting for you. That makes it quicker than the fastest production sports car, and it is also the fastest EV on the planet. Unassuming looking, aren't I? The Black Current is the first street-bodied all-electric dragster to reach the 9 second mark in the quarter mile. Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates plans to be carbon neutral by 2020. One way they will do this is by banning personal cars and providing autonomous electric podmobiles. |  | ||||
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