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Utilities: Grid can handle influx of electric cars


Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma 
television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car?

The nation's electric grid can handle a mass conversion to plug-in 
hybrid cars like this one, utility executives say.

The answer is the car. But the electricity draw by plasma televisions 
is easing the minds of utility company executives across the nation 
as they plan for what is likely to be a conversion of much of the 
country's vehicle fleet from gasoline to electricity in the coming years.

Rechargeable cars, industry officials say, consume about four times 
the electricity as plasma TVs.

But the industry already has dealt with increased electric demand 
from the millions of plasma TVs sold in recent years. Officials say 
that experience will help them deal with the vehicle fleet changeover.

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