Speed bumps ahead for electric-vehicle charging.

Speed bumps ahead for electric-vehicle charging.

As major automakers like Nissan, Mitsubishi, General Motors, and others are preparing plug-in hybrid electric cars, electric utilities are both salivating at the business opportunity and quietly fretting over potential outages that could mar the electric-vehicle rollout. Thousands of EVs use the pow...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 47, 1 (2010).
Main Author: Fairley, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
EV adopters.
EV charging.
Electric utilities.
Electric-vehicle charging.
Generating plants.
Green energy plans.
Neighborhood blackout.
Plug-in hybrid electric cars.
Policy experts.
Power grid breakdown.
Speed bumps.