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As their company was swirling around the financial drain in the early 2000s, General Motors executives came up with an idea to counter its gas-guzzling image and point the way to transportation of the future: an electric car with a gas-engine backup that could travel anywhere.

“[Customers] will set the system up so that should they get close to getting that kind of demand on, the system will kick in and ease that demand, meet that demand using battery power or solar power, to prevent that demand charge from being applied to their bill,” Niles said.

The units are modular and scalable and range from less than 5 kwh, to supply electric fences and dam pumps, to 50 kwh for large-scale agricultural businesses. Once installed and commissioned, the ongoing servicing and operation of the SPS units will be provided by the vendors for a two-year period.

He bought another one last year, a revamped model that can go 50 miles on electricity before the gas generator starts. Because he can recharge at work, most of his commute is done on battery power. Winters routinely goes 1,400 miles between gas station fill-ups, which he likes. And it costs only around $1 worth of electricity to charge the battery, he said.

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The older EcoCamper uses the same Toyota Alphard Hybrid base but features a full kitchen block and narrower bed/two-seat bench (Credit: Campervan Co/Campers Scotland)

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In the previous Metro games – 2033 and Last Light – you needed to charge the flashlight by some funky means. It’s not as bad as motion controls, sure, but it’s still an odd attempt to mimic a real-life action.

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LOS GATOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tigo Energy, Inc., pioneer of the smart modular Flex MLPE, today announced the new Underwriter Laboratories (UL) certification of its TS4 Platform Rapid Shutdown Systems (RSS) with SolaX Power, a leader in the development, production and distribution of solar inverters and battery storage. The eight SolaX inverters listed below were successfully certified with Tigo’s RSS solutions: TS4-F (Fire Safety), TS4-O (Optimization), and TS4-L (Long Strings). Tigo is currently compatible and available with SolaX and more tier one certified inverter manufacturing partners throughout the U.S. Contact Tigo about more RSS information for integrated or retrofitted PV installations.

DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, the state’s largest utilities, already are making preparations to deal with outages.