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Do You Live in a Green Car City?<\/p>\n

The race is on! Some U.S. cities have jumped to the lead in adoption of electrified vehicles. A few of the top 15 are to be expected, and a few others may surprise you.<\/p>\n

Forbes recently reported<\/a> on data compiled by R. L. Polk & Co.<\/a> showing that sales in 15 U.S. cities accounted for nearly 30% of all plug-in and hybrid vehicles on the road, even though less than 13% of new-vehicle registrations come from those cities. Granted, those figures include both plug-in electric vehicles and gasoline-dependent hybrids, but there were some plug-specific data in there too.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Bay Area (including Oakland and San Jose) and Los Angeles have the two highest concentrations of plug-in vehicle buyers. A quarter of sales of all-electric vehicles take place in these two metropolitan areas, Forbes reports.<\/p>\n

As a San Franciscan, I can’t resist saying, Yay! We’re Number One! We’re Number One!<\/p>\n

And it makes me wonder if it’s time to start some gamefication of all this to accelerate plug-in vehicle adoption. Could this kind of data be turned into an online game or a smartphone app? Maybe every time an EV or plug-in hybrid gets sold, your city’s “team” gains a point and gets prettier (or more studly, depending on your preference) on the game’s map. Or, every sale of a plug-in vehicle moves your team faster on a virtual race track. The cities with the least plug-in adoption will be falling apart along the road, unable to compete unless they get fixed<\/p>\n

And why stop at cities? With Plug In America focusing much of our energy this year on Plug In at Work, maybe Google<\/a> could compete with Apple<\/a> and HP<\/a> and other companies to see which electrifies its corporate fleet fastest, or has the most employees switching to plug-in vehicles?<\/p>\n

Here are the cities “winning” so far in the electrification of personal transportation, according to the Polk report and Forbes: San Francisco Bay Area; Los Angeles; Monterey; Santa Barbara; San Diego; Eureka; Chico; Palm Springs and Sacramento, Calif.; Eugene, Portland, Bend and Medford, Ore.; Portland, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n

Pulling up the rear are cities largely in the clutches of oilandia: Tulsa, Okla.; Lafayette and Lake Charles, La.; Odessa-Midland, Tex.; Glendive, Mont.; Minot-Bismarck, N.D., and Greenwood-Greenville, S.C.<\/p>\n

The game is on!<\/p>\n

Posted by Sherry<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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