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A car that could help power your home
Created: 04/09/2007
Video description: At the Alternative Energy Summit in Sunnyvale, Calif., utility company PG&E showed how owners of plug-in hybrid cars could one day use excess electricity to power their homes, or sell it back to the utility company at a profit.

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