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IEEE-USA Holding Plug-in Hybrids Symposium
10 August 2007
IEEE-USA is holding a one-day symposium, “Plug-In Hybrids: Accelerating Progress 2007" on 19 September 2007 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. The goal is to focus on current needs and how progress can be accelerated.
The symposium will cover the following issues in addition to keynotes that will address the broader policy issue:
Plug-in hybrids on the road today;
Fuel economy, efficiency and economics of plug-in hybrids;
The technology challenges;
The electric grid and plug-in hybrids; and
Legislative needs.
IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) created in 1973 to support the career and public policy interests of IEEE’s US members.
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Posted by: sulleny | August 10, 2007 at 05:12 PM
Agreed. A IEEE ratified "smart" power outlet - this time a single standart globally - which the power grid and vehicle can use to signal each other the power capabilities / prices would be very helpful in accelerating the vendor-independent interface for V2G / PHEVs.
IEEE should be setting up a standards commitee, and invite *technical* stakeholders (no politicians - they'd mess it all up) to ratify on all the required interfaces.
Posted by: realarms | August 11, 2007 at 12:47 AM
Standardizing is not easy. The utilities alone have had a lot of trouble standardizing on signalling systems and data formats for smart metering, and they didn't have an unfamiliar industry as essential partners.
That said, if the IEEE can push things over humps, it is all to the good.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | August 11, 2007 at 07:14 PM
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Nice to have confabs, but how about some concrete action? IEEE is a standards organization. What they should be working on is a set of standards for consumer transport power packs, trickle and quick charging systems, universal connector devices, V2G networks and other hardware specifications.
Enough of the happy talk.