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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wrote a great guest post today on Gas2.0 about his city’s big first step into the future of electric vehicles.  He talks about the past (he leased an EV1 from GM), present, and future of transportation in America and how he hopes his city will lead the way into that electric future.

Today, San Francisco took an important first step toward creating the electric vehicle infrastructure of the future. This morning I unveiled the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in front of San Francisco City Hall. These stations — called Smartlets — are on loan to the city from Coulomb Technologies.

Car-sharing companies Zipcar and City CarShare will use two of the charging stations — giving the public the opportunity to drive plug-in vehicles before they are mass produced. The third charging station will be used by a plug-in car in the City of San Francisco municipal fleet.

San Francisco is indeed on the forefront of the electric vehicle vanguard and is a city especially suited for this, especially now.  The Bay Area sports the nation’s largest ownership of hybrid and alternative-fueled vehicles per capita and these numbers are only getting larger.