[Graeme]

Car Prototype Generates Electricity, And Cash

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he price of oil nearly reached $100 a barrel recently, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of the past.

A team of UD faculty has created a system that enables vehicles to not only run on electricity alone, but also to generate revenue by storing and providing electricity for utilities. The technology--known as V2G, for vehicle-to-grid--lets electricity flow from the car’s battery to power lines and back.


The technology will work on a large scale, he said, because on average 95 percent of all cars are parked at any given time. One hour a day of car usage is the average in America.

PJM, the grid operator for 14 states, including Delaware, is keen on the technology and hosted a demonstration of the V2G car. But PJM requires at least 300 megawatts to purchase power. That means the UD team and its collaborators must get 300 cars up and running.

Next, the team, including the company that created the car, California-based AC Propulsion, will test the prototypes and fix any potential problems they bring to light. Then they’ll begin creating a user interface that will let drivers, for example, tell the car to never go below 50 percent charge while in V2G mode.

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]Car Prototype Generates Electricity, And Cash

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he price of oil nearly reached $100 a barrel recently, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of the past.

A team of UD faculty has created a system that enables vehicles to not only run on electricity alone, but also to generate revenue by storing and providing electricity for utilities. The technology--known as V2G, for vehicle-to-grid--lets electricity flow from the car’s battery to power lines and back.


The technology will work on a large scale, he said, because on average 95 percent of all cars are parked at any given time. One hour a day of car usage is the average in America.

PJM, the grid operator for 14 states, including Delaware, is keen on the technology and hosted a demonstration of the V2G car. But PJM requires at least 300 megawatts to purchase power. That means the UD team and its collaborators must get 300 cars up and running.

Next, the team, including the company that created the car, California-based AC Propulsion, will test the prototypes and fix any potential problems they bring to light. Then they’ll begin creating a user interface that will let drivers, for example, tell the car to never go below 50 percent charge while in V2G mode.

[efarmer]

Did I read correctly, 300 megawatts required to buy back power so they need 300 cars in operation? That's a million watts per car when it is acting as a grid power generator. So let's see, 746 watts is a horsepower, so we have each car capable of providing 1340 horsepower back to the grid. <sniff> <sniff> Something doesn't smell right here. Each car will haul the weight of an inverter that is rated at a megawatt?

I have to finish Efarmer's Patent Pending Sunshine pump, add a new section to Efarmer's Kinky Math Handbook (integers only,the fraction is fiction section), and then I am going to work on Efarmer's Easymotoring Sportsmobile. This car will burn money directly and avoid the losses encountered when the money is used to purchase liquid fuels or electrical power.