One recent photo after the victorious campaign to commercialize plug-in hybrids; below that, photos from the June 2007 event held to launch Google.org's RechargeIT program, featuring PHEVs and PHEVs-to-be under Google's solar roof, as well as photos of Google team members.
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Three-and-a-half years after Google celebrated the launch of RechargeIT with a fleet of converted Priuses, a dozen current Google staff, alumni and advisors reunited on February 3, 2011 to share their favorite stories. They saw the fruit of their efforts, as CalCars' Felix Kramer and Ron Gremban brought two Chevy Volts and one Nissan Leaf to the Googleplex in Mountain View. Staying around for a photo under the photovoltaic rooftop canopy were Ron, Alec Brooks, Rolf Schreiber, David Shearer, Felix, Charles Baron, Brian Beidelman, and Carl Page. Full size photo
Karen Padham Taylor, new RechargeIT team leader, at Googleplex in August 2008 Full size photo
Stanford climatologist Steven Schneider with Google.org's Aimee Christensen and Larry Brilliant.
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Felix Kramer, Prof. Andy Frank and Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant with Sharp solar PV panel.
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A123Systems CEO David Vieau with a plug fed by rooftop solar for one of the RechargeIT cars.
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Google's Sergey Brin plugs in the car to start the V2G demonstration; Google.org's Dan Reicher watches; the cameras click.
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A camera focused on the electric meter: after a few minutes, the meter runs backwards!
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Google's Alec Proudfoot explains the results shown on the large screen.
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Google's Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Google.org's Larry Briliant
watch the successful V2G demonstration.
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Kirsten Olsen and David Bercovich in front of the Google.org office in January 2007—David went on to produce the well-received video streaming at YouTube, and Kirsten became the PHEV project manager.
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Crowd gets the first public glimpse of EDrive's new prototype PHEV: Former Novellus CEO Sass Somekh; A123Systems CEO David Vieau: Electron Bank's Rober Ferber (partner with EDrive, back to camera), Google.org's Larry Brilliant, Google's Larry Page, and through the window, CalCars' Ron Gremban, EDrive's Greg Hansen.
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EDrive's Greg Hanssen, right, explains his prototype to Google's Larry Page and Calcars' Ron Gremban.
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GoogleFleet begins to form: cars ready to recharge.
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