Worlds Longest Range Electric Car Conversion Goes 300 Km
January 28, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Electric Cars Europe (ECE) have finished the first gas-to-electric conversion of 200 Volkswagen Golfs for the Dutch energy supplier, ENEXIS (formerly known as Essent).
The fleet is to be used in the testing of the Euro version of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) dubbed the “Mobile Smart Grid” (PDF). We don’t have any spec information about the electric Golf, but it is reported to have enough lithium ion batteries to travel 300 Km (186 miles) on one charge. That would make the longest range electric car conversion ever built. Read more
PHEV Toyota Prius’s to undergo testing in the Southeast US
November 10, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Two southeastern U.S. electric utilities will start testing a fleet of converted plug-in Toyota Priuses to evaluate a smart charging system.
Duke Energy Carolinas and Progress Energy will be evaluating both cross utility charging and billing and vehicle-to-grid technology. The project will look at the issues of tracking energy usage and billing when a car that is subscribed to one company charges on another’s network. Similarly, energy fed back to the grid from the cars will need to be tracked so that drivers get appropriate credit. V2Green will provide the communications modules that will identify the car when plugged into the grid for billing purposes.
