Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center hosted the Honorable Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, along with other high-ranking officials Aug. 12 to a demonstration of transformational innovation.
Through the use of plug-in electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technology, collectively known as PEV-V2G, Los Angeles Air Force Base is demonstrating how a military installation could reduce its energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy diversity and security. The base is the first facility in the Federal government to replace 100 percent of its non-tactical vehicle fleet with plug-in electric vehicles and is the largest V2G demonstration in the world.
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