PG&E Helps Bring Electric Vehicle Chargers to Muir Woods

This is a text version of the Clean Cities TV segment PG&E Helps Bring Electric Vehicle Chargers to Muir Woods, which aired on May 22, 2013.

HOST: The quiet operation of an electric car seems like the perfect complement to the simple beauty of the Muir Woods in Marin County. And after the unveiling of two public EV chargers at the national monument, that combination of technology and trees has become a reality.

FRANK DEAN: A place like this, it's a majestic redwood grove. We do want to have the quietest vehicles we have, the cleanest vehicles we can. And this is one step getting to that goal.

HOST: The Chargers were made possible with a grant from PG&E. They were installed by Adopt-A-Charger.

EZRA GARRETT: Partnerships like this with partners like the Adopt-A-Charger team and the Golden Gate Recreational Parks team are really phenomenal for us from a sustainability standpoint because they truly do integrate and environmental opportunity with a social and economic opportunity.

HOST: Garrett spoke of the significance of being able to come to the Muir Woods if you drive an electric vehicle.

GARRETT: The ability for folks to come to a park like this that's, you know, not close to home. It's a little bit of a remote location. But to have the competence that they're going to be able to charge that vehicle back up to get back home—Really is a difference maker for folks who are contemplating whether or not to take the plunge and get into an electric vehicle.

HOST: PG&E will pay for the power that's used by the EV chargers. And thanks to a grant from the Energy Department's Clean Cities Initiative, the Parks Service was able to buy several electric vehicles that though use in their fleet.

DEAN: Muir Woods receives nearly a million people a year in these coveted parking spaces will be right here front and center so people noticed them as they walk through. As they arrive, the notice this opportunity in this great partnership.

HOST: For Currents, I'm Matt Nowman.