Palo Alto to Require Electric Car Charging Stations in New Homes

California has highest number of electric cars per capita

California has more electric vehicles per capita than any other state in the nation, in part because policymakers seem to love them. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a whole sheaf of bills intended to hasten their adoption, and the city of Palo Alto — home to Tesla Motors — will require every new home to be wired for EV charging hardware.

The Palo Alto city council voted 9-0 in favor of a proposal that would require new single-family homes to come pre-wired for an EV charging station. It's a nominal requirement, considering most homes already are wired for a 220-volt line — which is needed for a so-called Level 2 charging station that can charge most cars in about eight hours — because that's the voltage needed to power a washer and dryer.

Comments

[Sevo]

And I’m sure Mr. Musk had nothing to do with this. Nothing.

[Free Society]

9-0? Fascism is popular in California.

[John Thacker]

Hmm, the headline doesn’t seem to match the story. There’s a difference between requiring that the house have a 220V line (which is what the story seems to say) and requiring that it have a charging station (which is the headline.)