7526 2 3 econsultancy_xml <p>It is also looking to make investments in technologies and companies featuring plug-in hybrids, fully electric vehicles, vehicle-to-grid capabilities and batteries.</p> <p>By means of demonstration, Google is having four of its Toyota Priuses and two Ford Escapes re-fitted to run as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and will publish telemetry data from the vehicles to the web to indicate the cars' efficiency.</p> <p>The company last year announced <a href="/blog/374-california-sun-to-power-third-of-googleplex">plans</a> to ensure a third of its giant Mountain View, California, campus becomes powered by solar energy. It is this 1.6-megawatt, 9,212-panel solar effort that powers its existing plug-in vehicle fleet. A hundred such cars will become part of its car-sharing scheme.</p> <p>Conventional hybrid vehicles like the Prius run on batteries but also depend in part on regular combustion engines, while plug-in vehicles can recharge off a wall socket overnight.</p> <p>Google.org said if all US cars on the road by 2025 were hybrids, half of them plug-in hybrids, America could reduce its oil consumption, currently 10m barrels per day, by 8m barrels per day.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>It is also looking to make investments in technologies and companies featuring plug-in hybrids, fully electric vehicles, vehicle-to-grid capabilities and batteries.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>By means of demonstration, Google is having four of its Toyota Priuses and two Ford Escapes re-fitted to run as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and will publish telemetry data from the vehicles to the web to indicate the cars' efficiency.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>The company last year announced <Link URL="/blog/374-california-sun-to-power-third-of-googleplex" Window="New">plans</Link> to ensure a third of its giant Mountain View, California, campus becomes powered by solar energy. It is this 1.6-megawatt, 9,212-panel solar effort that powers its existing plug-in vehicle fleet. A hundred such cars will become part of its car-sharing scheme.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Conventional hybrid vehicles like the Prius run on batteries but also depend in part on regular combustion engines, while plug-in vehicles can recharge off a wall socket overnight.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Google.org said if all US cars on the road by 2025 were hybrids, half of them plug-in hybrids, America could reduce its oil consumption, currently 10m barrels per day, by 8m barrels per day.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-06-19T09:42:00+01:00 0 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>Google has announced a philanthropic initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions by popularising electric-powered cars.</strong> </p> <p>Part of the <a href="http://www.google.org">google.org</a> philanthropy project, <a href="http://www.google.org/recharge/">RechargeIT</a> is offering $1m to think-tanks looking at ways to drive up use of electric and hybrid vehicles.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>Google has announced a philanthropic initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions by popularising electric-powered cars.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>Part of the <Link URL="http://www.google.org" Window="New">google.org</Link> philanthropy project, <Link URL="http://www.google.org/recharge/" Window="New">RechargeIT</Link> is offering $1m to think-tanks looking at ways to drive up use of electric and hybrid vehicles.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1377 363603 Google plugs in green car initiative false 2007-06-19T11:00:00+01:00 google-plugs-in-green-car-initiative 2009-04-30T03:44:34+01:00 2009-04-30T03:44:34+01:00 778