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

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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. We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016. Last April, Hyundai delivered 25 bidirectionally capable long-range Ioniq 5s to We Drive Solar.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar.