100 Silicon Valley Execs to Drive Plug-In Hybrids Next Year

The Mercury News reports that by early next year, 100 executives in Silicon Valley will be driving Plug-In Hybrids to acknowledge awareness of global warming by taking action.

The initiative was planned by the The Silicon Valley Leadership Group and its chief executive, Carl Guardino.

The action is a start to a broader mission:

Make the region a leader in conservation, in the use of alternative fuels and in reducing global warming; and to exert the valley's influence when it comes to pushing governments and big corporations to act to solve these problems.

Sass Somekh heads the plug-in program. His vision, which he admits is distant from the present:

200,000 one-megawatt windmills turning at night and generating enough renewable power for 200 million cars.

The goal is to have the batteries in plug-in hybrids store energy for others to use while connected to the grid when they are not in use, however, according to a senior director for smart energy at PG&E, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology still requires a lot of investment and research for it to be applicable at scale.