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TOPIC: Energy/Environment: "Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car" (The New York Times 2/14/10)


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Energy/Environment: "Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car" (The New York Times 2/14/10)
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Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car

By TODD WOODY and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: February 14, 2010

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(Jim Wilson/The New York Times
) Andrew Utter plugging his converted Toyota Prius into a charging station across the street from City Hall in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first.

The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations.

In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. 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.

“There is a huge momentum here,” said Andrew Tang, an executive at P.G.& E.

As automakers prepare to introduce the first mass-market electric cars late this year, it is increasingly evident that the cars will get their most serious tryout in just a handful of places. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and San Diego, a combination of green consciousness and enthusiasm for new technology seems to be stirring public interest in the cars.

The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families.

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I am glad to see this.  We can generate electricity in any number of ways but gas is yet another story.  Getting gas extracted from the earth in the US (Alaska/Offshore) to a usable form results in a lot of biproducts bad for the environment. So, electricity is a great option.  It will also cut down emission.

I wonder how long it takes to charge up the battery in that station...

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