SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -
Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load.
“We are doing some preliminary work,” said Dan Reicher, Google’s director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives. “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.”
“We have done a little bit of work on the software side looking at how you would write a computer code to manage this sort of charging infrastructure,” he said in an interview on the sidelines of an industry conference.
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