Honda (a car company) and UC-Davis just built a smart home together. Wait, why?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QeI2TGmcG4&w=620&h=315]

Our homes + our cars = 44 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. So what if the two were synced up -- as part of the emerging "Internet of Things" or "smart grid" -- in an effort to get to zero-carbon status? It's obviously still a long way off from being a regular thing -- hell, so is Tesla …