SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco has a new incentive to build an infrastructure for electric vehicles after Nissan announced Monday that it will market its new line of battery-powered cars in the Bay Area late next year.
Nissan officials on Monday said they are confident that the Bay Area is ready for the August 2010 launch of the all-battery-powered Nissan LEAF, which is expected to be the world’s largest mass distribution of an electric car – about 100,000 cars at one time. The Bay Area was one of five U.S. markets chosen for the launch, the company said.
Source: sfexaminer.com
Bay Area leaders have been promising for some time that the region will be EV-ready before all-battery cars become common in the market. Last year, Newsom and mayors in Oakland and San Jose declared that the Bay Area will be the nation’s EV capital, with a standardized infrastructure that allows commuters access to chargers in all kinds of public locations and at their home.
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