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Electric cars may hold solution for power storage
2013-12-30 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The thick blue cables and white boxes alongside an industrial garage here look like those in any electric-car charging station. But they work in a way that could upend the relationship Americans have with energy. The retrofitted Mini Coopers and other vehicles plugged into sockets where a Chrysler plant once stood do more than suck energy out of the multi-state electricity grid. They also send power back into it. With every zap of juice into or out of the region's fragile power network, the...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical