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

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But if too many electric cars in one area need charging, transformers like this can easily become overloaded. Kok works with others in city government to compile data and create maps, dividing the city into neighborhoods. Bidirectional charging promises to ease such problems. We Drive Solar. Our grid was not designed for this.”.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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That would require a dramatic increase in EV sales: In the United States in 2021, just over 1 million vehicles—less than 1 percent of those on the road—were fully electric. And only 3 percent of the new vehicles sold were fully electric. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an.