LONDON -- Honda Motor will take part in a French smart-grid project that uses electric cars as storage batteries, offering proprietary power conversion technology in a market where solar and wind power generation is increasingly taking hold.
Project envisions energy-sharing between homes and cars

A concept rendering of Honda's Power Manager system to be used in the French smart-grid project.
LONDON -- Honda Motor will take part in a French smart-grid project that uses electric cars as storage batteries, offering proprietary power conversion technology in a market where solar and wind power generation is increasingly taking hold.