To the editor: Right here’s a suggestion for Gov. Gavin Newsom and California state legislators if they’re severe about encouraging electrical automobile adoption: Cease cozying as much as the three massive non-public electrical utilities (“How California plans to spice up EVs with no federal assist,” Aug. 19). The grid connection charges, wildfire insurance coverage fund charges and different mounted prices tacked onto residential electrical payments are demise by a thousand cuts for the state’s photo voltaic trade and — by extension — EV adoption.
A few of us who went to appreciable expense to place photo voltaic panels on our roofs with expectations that we may gasoline our EVs with free energy from the solar are studying that’s not a mannequin that the state helps. Some will assume twice about switching to an EV if Southern California Edison and the state attain into their wallets each time they recharge.
Jon Rowe, Costa Mesa
