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California Utility Hacks Prius For Home Power

April 09th, 2007 | Category: Gadget News

California’s big power utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., today rolled out a prototype PRIUS HACK that lets you plug the car into your house to power lights, PCs and blenders. The Toyota hybrid has been modified with what they call Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology. You simply plug the Prius into a standard wall outlet, which charges the Prius batteries when the house has power, or lets those batteries power the house when it doesn’t. Cool technology, but shouldn’t the power company be working on preventing blackouts, rather than work-arounds for when the blackouts happen? Whatever. I want one.

Original post by Mike

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