Nor does anyone want a rerun of the overloading in early November of Germany's grid that left 10 million Europeans in five countries without power over a weekend, or of the collapse of the rickety North American grid in 2003.
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For example, how often and for how long owners would plug in to the electrical grid, or a solar supply.
The gasoline engine serves as an on-board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.
Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas without grid electricity.
There has been a rapid expansion of the Mozambican electricity grid, and the latest figures show that 36% of the population have electricity, either from the grid or from solar panels, in their homes, a high figure by sub-Saharan African standards.
OnStar will allow researchers to develop services such as demand-response that would allow drivers that sign up to let the utility control when their Volt is charged to minimize the impact on the grid in exchange for receiving a lower electricity rate or other incentives.
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Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas that didn't have grid electricity.
The electric grid does not care if you plug in a toaster, an iron, or a computer.
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Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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In the absence of sensible policies that invest in long-term public goods like education or basic research, roads, railways, broadband, a smart electric grid -- an absence of those investments can be equally disastrous.
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