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2010 Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center - Fact Sheet

Publication Number:    CEC-500-2011-FS-017

Abstract:
The Plug‐In and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center conducts research in:

  • Battery second life applications.
  • PH&EV/smart grid interactions.
  • Consumer behavior.
Battery second life applications seek to decrease the first time cost of vehicle batteries while increasing the battery’s lifetime value through secondary use as a storage device that can provide electricity as a peak demand reduction option. Use as a storage device would further enable the integration of renewable resources, such as wind and solar energy, into the smart grid system.

PH&EV/smart grid interaction will determine how PHEVs and EVs become part of the household energy system. The smart grid is expected to be the technology that will enable and connect optimal interactions among consumers, vehicles, and the utilities. There are still many gaps in understandinthese interactions that need to be resolved before an electric fuel system can successfully move forward.

Consumer behavior research initiatives include vehicle energy feedback systems that improve value, safety, and performance of vehicles for drivers as well as consumers’ battery‐chargingbehavior.

Author(s):  Dan Gallagher

Commission Division:    Technology Systems Division - R&D, PIER (500)

Office/Program:    PIER: Public Interest Energy Research

PIER Program Area:    Transportation Research

Date Published:    March 2011

Date On Line:    03/23/2011

Acrobat PDF File Size: 2 pages, 242 kilobytes

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