New car lots, ebay, and even craigslist are all finding one thing more and more in common…the electric vehicle or EV these days. With a few EVs already roaming the streets and many more to hit showroom floors in the coming years, power utility companies are staying up past bedtime to ensure ugrades to their grids are continuing. 
Not that there is a shortage of power, but getting the increased demand of power on the grid down to household level is their current dilemma. Burnt out street corner transformers, circuit breakers tripping, and your kitchen lights dimming is what they are trying to avoid with the onslaught of electric vehicles that will be sucking up precious electrons off the grid in many household garages.
All this not to fear the expects say, due to the high cost of an EV it will help them be able to anticipate which neighborhoods will need the upgrades first. Personally I think it’s great in that they are performing upgrades on our grids to handle more power and such but think they might be one too many steps ahead or thinking with a few extra zeros. I don’t doubt Chevrolet will sell many Volts but at the price of $40K, they’d be hard pressed to buckle down our power systems….I guess only time and power meters will tell.
A small generator created using this idea just to show you what the possibilities are.