Could electric car chargers one day help keep the World Cup on your TV?

Will Nichols
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Pod Point says charge management software could be used to take the equivalent of a medium-sized power plant off the grid by 2020

With the World Cup now upon us, National Grid is braced for power surges as the nation simultaneously flicks the switch on the kettle to take the edge of another England defeat on penalties. Yesterday,...

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