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Jul 5, 2026, 10:53 am72 ptsTrending
Electrek
As last week’s relentless heat wave pushed power grids to their breaking points, critics feared that the record number of electric vehicles on the push them over the edge. Instead, the opposite happened: EVs helped utilities keep the lights on and the AC running by feeding the electricity stored in their…
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