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Tesla Model 3 production, self-driving car pros for electric cars, and battery power grid backups: Today's Car News

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Self-driving cars will provide numerous benefits to electric cars. PG&E partners with Tesla to provide power grid backups. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. In the last week of June, Tesla built 5,000 Model 3 electric cars—a. Tesla Model 3 production reaches a milestone.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. By partnering with these two industries.

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