The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines

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From the Chevy Volt, to the Nissan Leaf, to the Tesla Model S, electric cars seem to be the way of the future. Join me as we explore a typical wind farm and discuss the potential for wind energy and electric cars. While today's electric grid propels these bastions of modern engineering with a fair bit of fossil fuel, it's clear that electric cars are pretty green and will only continue to get greener.

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(percentage of capacity generated is claimed here higher than I quoted)

You'll have to excuse the wind noise in the video. It was rather windy. At the wind farm.