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California’s electric utility companies have been given the go-ahead to spend nearly $768 million on charging infrastructure for electric cars, trucks, and buses. This represents the largest state-level effort yet by the utility industry to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles.
Transportation accounts for about 40 percent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, and state officials see electrifying heavy-duty vehicles as a way to fight both global warming and air pollution in one step, since regulators also expect much of the electricity to be generated by clean sources like solar power.
Transportation accounts for about 40 percent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, and state officials see electrifying heavy-duty vehicles as a way to fight both global warming and air pollution in one step, since regulators also expect much of the electricity to be generated by clean sources like solar power.