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Originally Posted by berettafan
Well i'm not sure electric IS here now. I doubt we have the capacity to charge a large number of 'plug in' cars.
By way of example if a number of residents in my town started running such technology it would impact EVERYONE's utility bills. We just negotiated a power agreement and one of the major parts of the contract was a max. power available and punitive pricing above such. Electricity isn't something that gets cheaper as you use more. In fact it gets more expensive.
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As I've probably said before around here, the City of Los Angeles now has a mandate where it no longer purchases gasoline-only powered cars. Aside from police cars, (which might soon move to some other tech), everything is either hybrid, clean diesel, CNG or hydrogen. Oddly enough, left out of that mix is
electric. Hydrogen though - yes - L.A. is making a big push for that. Lots of little hydrogen powered Civics are running around Downtown.
But then, the Port of L.A. is purchasing electric tractors that move 60,000 pounds at 40 mph for miles. That tech is exclusively produced in SoCal btw.