Japan, the country that does everything towards turning their transportation system into an electrically powered one, instead of the current oil-based, polluting system that continues to cripple the Earth, is now planning a new step in the process of switching to EVs. The plan of Mitsubishi Corp. and the Tokyo Institute of Technology is to take full advantage of the unwanted, very less used electricity gathered by wind mills during the night, by directing it into electrical vehicles' grid.

They say the energy produced by wind mills during the night is not desired by energy companies like the one produced during the day, as there is very little activity and thus, very little need for energy. The windmills cannot be simply stopped during the night and this is why the two institutions are currently working on putting them to good use. Ingenious thinking and... typical Japanese stuff, I might add.

The news discovered by Greencaradvisor in the Nikkei Business Daily (JP) also says that the new technology developed by Mitsubishi-TIT alliance will help wind mill operators save the money spent on special batteries that keep the devices powered up during the night and it could be implemented in a few years. The fresh tech is so advanced that it allows the power supplied to a charging vehicle to be stopped and restarted in increments of one second. This ability was tested successfully in Hokkaido not long ago.

Because special charging stations have to be built near wind mills in order for the new solution developed by Mitsubishi Corp. and the Tokyo Institute of Technology to be applied at a large scale, it will take a good period before they manage to plant it all across Japan. There is more info on this subject on the abovementioned websites and on engadget.


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