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10 Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 11:34 EDT

Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid

Somewhere on America's eastern coast, there's an economic development agency in Massachusetts promoting green energy solutions. And Monday the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (or MassCEC) announced "a first-of-its-kind" program to see what happens when they provide free electric vehicle chargers to selected residents, school districts, and municipal projects.

The catch? The EV chargers are bi-directional, able "to both draw power from and return power to the grid..." The program hopes to "accelerate the

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