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Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts

  • Written by Bjorn Sturmberg, Research Leader, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University
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Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities – as we’ve seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns – but they face two obstacles.

In the short term they’re still expensive. In the long term charging millions of vehicles from the electricity grid presents challenges....


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