Sprint has also partnered with ECOtality, an electric car charging company, to connect its electric car chargers throughout the country.

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For example, the Ford Focus Electric can wirelessly connect to cloud-based applications that allow owners to control settings while away from their cars.

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Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.

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The health center was only a few hundred yards from electric transmission lines, but nobody had ever bothered to connect it.

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After an electric presentation by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on the role of company culture, Lazarus attempted to connect the audience of senior marketers with her side of the world: advertising, brand management and lately, corporate social responsibility.

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