http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/ Engadget Comments for Toshiba's Charge Grid puts your solar panels to work, smartly charges your EV http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/So, even leaving the car at direct sunlight, it can give us a few minutes of charge.
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Solar sure is pretty!

Panels are getting cheaper and more efficient all the time. Get this infrastructure stuff out there and it will just get better and better.]]>Jun 21st 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/I expect the efficiency of inverters and the like is much higher than they once were. I studied them in school, and the newer systems only leech about 2-5% of your power.]]>Jun 21st 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/
If it's as bad as you say it is, without any other angle to see it from, it wouldn't really have a commercial value and they'd just be dumping money into a losing venture. I think you're missing something, but feel free to actually back that up with something more substantive. ]]>Jun 21st 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/
So if you combine the solar charging during the day with cheap electricity at night and slow charging (for battery longevity) with battery pack exchange, then you have a reasonably good plan for the daily commute on pure electricity.]]>Jun 21st 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/
Common sense has been lost on the american people...I guess when you are ranked 25 to 26 in Math and Science this bullcrap can be sold to you.]]>Jun 21st 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/If you pull in Solar power during the day, you want to send power into the grid when it's expensive. Then, you pull the power back out over night when it's cheaper. You make money off the power company. You can make money or pay for batteries that cost you money. ]]>Jun 21st 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/
I thought it DID pay to put the power back in to the grid? Or is that just the progressive san francisco bay area?]]>Jun 21st 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/toshibas-charge-grid-puts-your-solar-panels-to-work-smartly-ch/Jun 21st 2010 5:24PM