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Let me again make the case for why electrifying transportation is one of the most important things happening.

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We don’t have an energy problem. Plenty of it all around: Sun comes up every day. Wind. Tides. Waves. Energy everywhere you look.

What we have is an energy storage problem. And electrifying transportation is the quickest way to perfect battery technology — and distribute millions of them in houses throughout the country.

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The combination of cheap solar and putting a big battery in every house will have implications so disruptive that predicting how people will get their energy 20 years out is a fool’s game.