Google to Help Minimize Plug-in Charging Load

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Because there aren’t enough charging stations to give your electric vehicle juice for a few more miles, or maybe because it takes a long time to charge, it’s only natural that people are not yet appealed to hop on the green bandwagon and buy themselves a four wheeler that runs on batteries. With that in mind and because they believe in a cleaner future, Google is reportedly working on a way to make electric vehicles charge more efficiently.

Although the whole concept is nothing we haven’t heard before, Google thinks there’s more light at the end of the tunnel. The company are now looking at coming up with a mainstream software solution that would fully integrate the plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid in a way that would help minimize the charging load.

“We have begun some work on smart charging of electric vehicles and how you would integrate large number of electric vehicles into the grid successfully,” said Dan Reicher, Google’s director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives.

And since the web giant is eying a future with millions of electric vehicles on the roads, one of the idea they came up with, was that the parked plug-ins would transfer their energy back to the electric grid to help it during peak hours.