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Charge Your Electric Car at Someone Else's House?

Author: Larry Fisher, Practice Director, Automotive, Energy and Emerging Technologies

Published: 13 Apr 2011

We’re in the early days of the build-out of the electric vehicle infrastructure, which can easily give rise to “range anxiety”: the fear that you’ll drive your electric car too far from your home charging station (and any others) to complete your return trip. A Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to address this by creating a network of places where you can charge your electric vehicle, including the homes of other electric vehicle owners, accessible via a smartphone app.

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