An article yesterday on Fox5 San Diego had some good news for a Greener San Diego.
San Diego is one of 5 metropolitan areas selected to receive money from a $100 million federal stimulus grant to support infrastructure to support electric cars.
“It’s the largest deployment of electric vehicles and electric infrastructure ever, and San Diego’s part of the project,” San Diego Gas & Electric’s Clean Transportation Manager Bill Zobel said.
Some of the money will be used by SDG&E to build public fueling stations. You will be able to charge your purchase to your existing electric bill.
Joseph Gottlieb hopes the new charging stations will turn San Diego into a hotbed of electric innovation. Gottlieb is president of the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego, and he also runs Electricity Motors, a company that converts gas vehicles to electric. He says a typical conversion will run about $15,000. In addition, the batteries must be replaced every three years. Even so, it will save money over running the vehicle on gasoline. Vehicles can go between 40 and 100 miles on a single charge at a cost of just pennies a mile, he said.
SDG&E is also working with automaker Nissan, which is rolling out the all-electric Leaf passenger car in 2010. The SDG&E electric fueling stations will be up and running in San Diego at about the same time.
I am pretty excited about this news. Learn more about the Nissan All Electric Leaf or the Chevy Volt.
