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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., will each receive a Fit EV for testing starting in 2011. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.