{"id":13985,"date":"2017-10-05T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2017-10-06T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:54:54","slug":"electric-cars-help-power-grid-become-efficient-less-expensive-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/electric-cars-help-power-grid-become-efficient-less-expensive-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"How Electric Cars Could Help the Power Grid Become More Efficient, Less Expensive (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608231\/by-2040-more-than-half-of-all-new-cars-could-be-electric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. While electric vehicles consume electricity, they can also export power to the grid as mobile energy storage units. An increase in electric vehicle adoption may mean more flexibility for the grid to respond to supply and demand. I have written a commentary on this topic for Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/constancedouris\/2017\/10\/05\/how-electric-cars-could-help-the-power-grid-become-more-efficient-less-expensive\/#76828f74121e\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0analysis\u00a0from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. While electric vehicles consume electricity, they can also export power to the grid as mobile energy storage units. An increase in electric vehicle adoption may mean more flexibility for the grid to respond to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Electric Cars Could Help the Power Grid Become More Efficient, Less Expensive (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/electric-cars-help-power-grid-become-efficient-less-expensive-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Electric Cars Could Help the Power Grid Become More Efficient, Less Expensive (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A recent\u00a0analysis\u00a0from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. 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