The city of San Francisco took another step into electric vehicle territory by installing "Smartlet" electric vehicle charging stations outside of City Hall today. The Smartlets are on loan from Coulomb Technologies and will be used to charge up cars from ZipCar, City CarShare and "a plug-in car in the City of San Francisco municipal fleet." Mayor Gavin Newsom made the announcement this morning.Mayor Newsom, one of the few to actually own an EV1 back in the day, also wrote a post for Gas2 in which he says that he believes battery electric vehicles - not hybrids and he did not mention hydrogen - "are the quantum leap we need to make."
One thing about this caught my eye. A ZipCar with a plug? Huh? The San Francisco ZipCar site doesn't list any vehicles that can get juice from the grid, so I called the San Francisco ZipCar office. They told me that they have just one plug-in model, specifically designated for city hall, which is a converted PHEV Prius.
Thanks to Natasha M. for the tip!
UPDATE: We just found a press release announcing ZipCar's PHEV program. It's pasted after the jump.
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