{"id":356952,"date":"2026-07-05T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:00:04","slug":"the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"The grid was melting down in last week\u2019s heat \u2013\u00a0until EVs came to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>As last week\u2019s relentless heat wave pushed power grids to their breaking points, critics feared that the record number of electric vehicles on the push them over the edge. Instead, the opposite happened: EVs helped utilities keep the lights on and the AC running by feeding the electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/07\/05\/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-grid-was-melting-down-in-last-weeks-heat-until-evs-came-to-the-rescue\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":356953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}