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Innovators in the field are gradually convincing car manufacturers of the potential to create a "value proposition for the car owner" and thus boost sales, Gage said. Ultimately, however, carmakers may be put at ease by experiments being conducted by the military.

The Navy has begun an intensive study with MIT to test batteries used only for driving against those that are plugged into the grid for storage.

And the week before Christmas, the Pentagon transported 13 Nissan Leafs to a Southern California Edison charging facility in Pomona as part of a $20-million program involving dozens of vehicles at Los Angeles Air Force Base and the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake.

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"In a Delaware pilot project, electricity is stored in and retrieved from the batteries of idle vehicles. Car owners would be paid."

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