A PHEV can provide power to a home

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Did you know that, "A PHEV can provide power to your home in the case of a power grid outage?; A fleet of PHEV’s (consisting of cars, vans, trucks, firetrucks or busses with plug-in capability) can power critical systems during emergencies." Source: CalCar/Vehicles
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Additional Wikipedia Reference: Paragraph 2 Sentence 4
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And: Conversions of production hybrids to Plug-in Hybrid capability
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And: Economic Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
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Sent to you as a public service from the DFW Metroplex Alternative Energy Caucus
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P.S., In addition if a PHEV's engine was also converted to using flex-fuel, E-85, bio-diesel or compressed natural gas or hydrogen gas, it would be doubly capable of reducing individual or organizational imported oil dependency.
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