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On its own, SoCal Edison maintains the largest EV fleet in the country, with some 300 electric vehicles, mostly Toyota RAV4s and trucks. It also operates in Pomona the Electric Vehicle Technical Center, a facility advanced enough to have automakers knocking. Ford's plug-in hybrid Escape SUVs have been...
While EV owners can charge the cars by plugging them into a regular 110-volt outlet, the "slow charge" can take up to eight hours and may jack up an electric bill the equivalent of 2 kilowatts per month. Most e-car owners will eventually want to plug in their...
Watch TIME's video about charging your electric car for 60 cents.
But SoCal Edison and other utilities, like San Diego Gas & Electric, are hoping early-adopter enthusiasm and new infrastructure upgrades in hot e-car zip codes, like Santa Monica and Newport Beach, will overcome these early market glitches. (See the history of the electric car.)
At current rates, the electric-fuel usage for e-cars is estimated to be 50% cheaper than gasoline, or about 4 cents a mile. This comes with the added benefit of low maintenance costs for EVs and, of course, zero emissions. In the U.S., 40% of greenhouse-gas emissions come...