
Non-Californians were treated to an amusing spectacle last summer. In the Gilded State, it wasn’t so funny.
California’s electrical utilities, you may recall, had to beg the state’s residents not to charge their electric vehicles at night because it was putting too much stress on the state’s fragile grid and potentially forcing rolling blackouts. This urgent request came six days after California passed a new regulation banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.
