"Smart Garage" Session Examines How to Develop Vehicle-To-Grid Technology

From the terribly remiss department: John Gartner, editor and co-founder of MatterNetwork.com, a site that covers sustainability issues, recently attended symposium on plug-in hybrids and the smart grid, sponsored by futurist Amory Lovins' Rocky Mountain Institute.

Because of attendance limitations, MatterNetwork was tabbed to be a sort of "pool reporter" for on-line coverage of the event (that means no one else from the blogosphere was invited - at least not as a writer), Gartner has compiled his postings on the blog's site, and we're remiss in not alerting you sooner to his reports.

The meeting, held earlier this month, brought together executives from more than 20 organizations - including Ford Motor Co., Tesla Motors, General Motors Corp., Duke Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric, Austin Energy, Wal-Mart, IBM, EDS/Hewlett-Packard, and ZipCar - to cogitate on and discuss the technical and financial obstacles to linking the battery-powered car and the commercial electric grid - so-called V2G, or vehicle-to-grid, technology

RMI organized the "Smart Garage" charette - a collaborative, problem-solving meeting - because it sees the transportation and power generation industries as major energy consumers and big contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and, thus, likely candidates to be able to actually come up with some solutions to the growing problems of energy consumption and greenhouse gas buildup.

We are not fans of the idea of havign just one outlet cover an event as we believe that the public is best served by having what's being said and done reviewed, interpreted and commented on by as many resources as possible. The sound of one hand clapping just doesn't carry very far.

However, we believe Gartner to be a comprehensive, honest and thoughtful reporter of events, and found his reports on the Smart Garage event quite thought-provoking.

You can read them for yourself in MatterNetworks' transportation section, under the "Views that Count"  heading. Look for Gartner's name over these four titles (listed here in chronological order):

V2G: All roads lead Through Batteries 

EVs to Power New Business Models

Cities Can Drive PHEV Adoption

Workshopping the PHEV Future 

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John O'Dell October 20, 2008, 4:44 PM

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