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Kimberly Harris, chief resource officer for Puget Sound Energy, Washington's largest utility, said power to fuel an electric fleet shouldn't be a problem, especially if people charge their cars at off-peak hours. But there are many unsolved questions, such as how consumers will charge their vehicles in public places, and who's going to pay for it.
Lutz said that if the U.S. is going to electrify its car fleet in a clean manner, without burning much more coal, windmills and solar farms are not enough.
"The only real option is nuclear energy," he said. However, not a single nuclear plant has been built in the U.S. in decades.
GM's electric ambitions rely on designing a lithium-ion battery — a type commonly used in laptops but difficult to scale for a car — that's cheap and powerful.
Lutz, who was in Seattle to speak with local auto journalists, said the company is on track.
"We are simply quite startled and amazed at how everything is working according to plan," he said.
But the Volt is not alone.
Toyota, whose wildly successful Prius established a niche for hybrids, recently unveiled plans for a plug-in version, also powered by a lithium-ion battery such as IBM ThinkPad T22 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T23 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T30 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T40 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T41 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T42 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T43 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T60 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T61 Battery, IBM ThinkPad X20 Battery, IBM ThinkPad X21 Battery, IBM ThinkPad X22 Battery. It will be available to commercial fleets in 2010, Toyota says.
Project Better Place, a Silicon Valley startup, earlier this year struck a pact with Renault-Nissan to make a purely electrical vehicle with swappable batteries available to Israeli customers in 2010.
Most big carmakers will likely focus on areas where driving distances are shorter, gasoline prices are higher and big carbon footprints are unpopular, said Craig Giffi, vice chairman and U.S. leader of consumer and industrial products for consulting firm Deloitte.
Places like Israel, small European countries, California, Oregon and Washington seem ripe for experimentation.
Locally, Puget Sound Energy is launching a two-year pilot program to better understand how plug-in vehicles and their owners will interact with the existing electricity grid.
"We should have it up and running in the summer with a couple of plug-in hybrids," said Tom Maclean, head of emerging technologies for the utility.
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