Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Local Weather Transportation/Traffic Education Environment Politics Real Estate Joel Connelly Webtowns/Neighborhoods Obituaries Special Reports Corrections US/World U.S. We think the market is ready. Nissan plans to roll out the car in 12 to 15 markets next year, Perry said. Washington, D.C. We think the consumers are ready."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It

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