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

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We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016. Drawing in partners along the way, Berg has plotted ways to bring bidirectional charging to the We Drive Solar fleet. We Drive Solar’s two bidirectional Renault Zoes are prototypes, which Berg obtained by partnering with the French automaker. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar. Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. Norway has the highest per capita number of EVs, which represented.