Plug-in Electric Vehicles
A California Energy Commission report estimates as of June 2013 there are over 32,000 PEVs and over 14,000 neighborhood electric vehicles on the roads. Sales of the new generation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) started in December 2010 and since then over 28,000 of these vehicles have been purchased in California. The primary incentives for the sale of these vehicles in California came from both the Air Resources Board’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) and the federal tax credit for electric vehicles. Charging stations are helping to encourage the trend. Private instrustrture such as Tesla Motors project to build dedicated charging stations up and down California add to the effort.Tesla has stations in Buellton and Harris Ranch on Hwy 5 in Central California.
