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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. Their research partnership ran for four years.

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There’s a Queue Coming for Tesla Charging, and That’s OK

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A report from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) outlines major challenges in harmonizing every aspect of juice bars for cars: Stations, networks, vehicles and the grid itself. The physical plug interface isn't the only automotive version of Beta vs. VHS. When I plugged both a Mach-E and Volkswagen ID.4

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