Who has the corporate power to lobby for distributed renewable energy generation and storage?  Google does.  An eco-friendly corporation of creative people.  Maybe the corporate leopard (at least this one)can change spots?

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/6/18/23499/4714#17

The Hymotion Prius plugin conversion uses the A123 battery pack.  12.5k extra for that, rumored to be 9.5k when introduced to the public.

The Ford Escape conversion is important too.  why?  Because government agencies like the US Forest service are required to buy american.

My guess is that the good people at google will use this tiny experiment to launch internet billing services for buying/selling renewable energy over the future renewable distributed generation and storage grid.

That will make google the new power company.  Gleaning a few tenths of a cent from each kwh exchanged.  Another mega billion revenue stream?  yep.  

Watch for broadband wireless internet that uses the power grid for a backbone and antenna to enable this necessary leap forward.  

You will sell kwh into the grid, from your solar or wind system at home, or your vehicle batteries or your vehicle backup generator (fuel cell/microturbine running on your own home generated biogas sometime soon) into the grid, then buy some back to recharge your plugin vehicle batteries at work or the shopping center or school or even inductive (the new tuned resonant induction system from MIT) strips under the highway.

Wisconsin electric is paying 22 cents per kwh for solar PV.  A gold rush in distributed renewable power is coming and google will be opening up an assay office over the internet.  That's my guess.  Call me for details google I can work from home, hehey.