Your average EV owner needs to plug into a grid to charge up.

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This makes it attractive to mining companies, which operate in inconvenient places where they cannot easily plug into a national grid.

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Ibiden's pin-grid packages plug into circuit boards via dozens of tiny prongs.

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For example, how often and for how long owners would plug in to the electrical grid, or a solar supply.

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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.

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The electric grid does not care if you plug in a toaster, an iron, or a computer.

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Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.

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Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.

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