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

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Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Kempton and Letendre’s. In the UK, experiments are.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

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Formula E , the FIA’s offshoot of the global spectacle that is Formula 1 , has gone from awkward baby steps to sprint-level speed in just eight years. That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. This plug-in GT4 can also charge from 5-to-80 percent in 15 minutes.

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