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Electric Cars Won't Just Solve Tailpipe Emissions - They May Even Strengthen the US Power Grid, Experts Say
07 Nov 2022 | Abstracted from Yahoo Finance
"When electric cars are parked...their batteries can collectively become a valuable asset to the greater grid...
"Someday, millions of vehicles could use special bidirectional chargers to absorb energy when it's plentiful and release it back to the grid as needed...if much of the US fleet goes electric, the amount of battery storage available is enormous...two V2G-enabled school buses in Massachusetts pushed power to the grid almost daily."
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