The electric grid’s next power source might be sitting in your driveway

A BWM electric car is charged with a cable at a private wallbox at a single-family home. | Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance/Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap into the grid, their giant batteries add to the system’s load. Timing is also a challenge: When people get home from work and plug their cars in, so too is everyone else...

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