A unique Canberra-based experiment has revealed how Australia's transport bureaucrats will need to stamp the accelerator on technical and regulatory changes in the next 12 months to take full advantage of electric vehicles as an untapped back-up power supply.
There are currently over 180,000 electric vehicles - essentially big batteries on wheels - now on Australia's roads but only a tiny percentage have the so-called "two-way" capability to "push" power back to support the national grid in the case of a supply emergency.
