New York Times: Google and Utility to Test Hybrids That Sell Back Power

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Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page, plugging in
a hybrid car Monday at the company’s California headquarters.

An excerpt from The New York Times:

Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the country’s electric grids, and vice versa.

The companies displayed on Monday six Toyota Prius and Ford Escape hybrid vehicles modified to run partly on electricity from the power grid, allowing the vehicles to go up to 75 miles on a gallon of gas, nearly double the number of miles of a regular hybrid. They also modified one vehicle to give electricity back to the power company.

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