The Future of the Grid Could Be Parked in Your Driveway
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A growing fleet of electric vehicles could unlock a cheaper, cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel power plants—without building new infrastructure.
In the popular imagination, the car is a symbol of unfettered freedom, conjuring up images of rugged individualism, heeding the call of the open road, and driving off into the sunset. In the green imagination, the car is a symbol of environmental ills: generator of carbon emissions, belcher of unhealthy air pollution, enabler of sprawl. But all that applies to internal combustion engine vehicles, the old cars. The new cars—electric vehicles (EVs)—are poised to shift these narratives by becoming so much more than cars. In the future, cars won’t just get people to and from work and the…
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