On August 21, 2009
Gridpoint Software for World’s Biggest Electric Car Deployment
On August 10, charging company ECOtality (through its subsidiary, eTec) announced that it had been awarded almost $100 million in stimulus money. Working with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the money will support deployment of 12,750 charging stations and 5,000 Nissan Leaf EVs. Although this is being billed as the largest U.S. EV deployment in history, it’s unlikely that adding 5,000 EVs to grids in five markets (Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington) will cause much of bump in electricity usage. But President Obama wants to see a million plug-in hybrids by 2015, and that’s a lot of plugs. A major area of concern is, after a major EV deployment, tens of thousands of people will be plugging into the same grid…
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