Only a few people in the Chicago area will be part of the first wave of electric vehicle owners later this year. But their charging habits have the potential to affect everyone’s electricity prices.

If they plug in their cars at the wrong time of day, everyone will pay the price for the added burden on the electric grid. Moreover, there’s the potential to do more environmental harm than good by forcing higher-polluting generating plants to work overtime to meet the extra demand.

via Charging up: Electricity prices could be impacted by when electric vehicles charge up – chicagotribune.com.

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