Electric vehicle charging station in a mall parking lot.
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Some types of alternative energy sources present a difficult problem – what to do when the source stops providing energy? Solar energy isn’t available at night, and wind energy isn’t there when the wind stops blowing, but the demand for energy doesn’t stop. The solution is to draw power from storage of some type, but storing energy can be problematic.
The immediate answer is to use batteries, but providing power to an electric grid would require a lot of batteries, and batteries are expensive. Fortunately, Driivz, a subsidiary of Vontier Corporation, has found a lot of batteries, and they spend a lot of time connected to the grid.
Those batteries are installed in the growing number of electric cars and trucks. According to Driivz, the vast majority of those cars and trucks spend…