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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Given the rapid uptake of electric vehicles, many people are thinking hard about how to make the best use of all that rolling battery power. Their initial idea was that garaged vehicles would have a two-way computer-controlled connection to the electric grid, which could receive power from the vehicle as well as provide power to it.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. Still, Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, and McLaren spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on race engineering and R&D alone. So the performance gap remains huge, but Formula E is trying to close it.

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