Nissan Motor Company plans to sell electric cars in the United States and Japan by 2010. Nissan is the first major automaker to put its reputation on the line by promising a time table for bringing the technology to market. The electric cars are designed to be plugged into electric outlets at consumers homes.
While I welcome this technology, I am curious to see how much this shift in energy consumption will effect electric bills. It will take years for the vehicles to have any real market saturation, but I suspect that when they do that we will see a spike in electricity bills. And such a spike should help push the way for more alternative sources of power such as solar, wind, and nuclear.