Neighborhood Stimulus Stimulus Package 
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
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.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 30, 2009
But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained. So instead, Edison and auto manufacturers are turning to “smart metering&# technologies.
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