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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.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Google Facebook COMMENTS (1) Post a comment Posted by tombdragon on 04/21/09 at 12:05AM The Government needs to intervene for our benefit??? Oregon cant afford to play that game, or at least not at those levels, but McCabe thinks it remains a serious contender for Norwegian electric car manufacturer Think.

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