on its EV Project website, “The ultimate goal of The EV Project is to take the lessons learned from the deployment of these first 8,300 EVs, and the charging infrastructure supporting them, to enable the streamlined deployment of the next 5,000,000 EVs.”
And the grand experiment is beginning in San Diego.
Ecotality says it expects to begin installing the first charging stations this fall, and Nissan says it anticipates delivering its first Leaf EVs by December, with the hybrid Chevy Volt arriving at roughly the same time. Ecotality says it will eventually install about 1,500 charging stations in commercial and public places, with another 1,000 subsidized installations to be done at the homes of qualifying EV motorists. Nissan said last month it plans to deliver 1,000 Leafs to San Diego under the EV program.
Chevrolet said earlier this week that demand for the Volt is strong enough that the company increased its 2012 production capacity by 50 percent, from 30,000 vehicles to 45,000.
So why is San Diego at the front of a line that
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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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