“How do I know if my electrical panel needs an upgrade” and “can my house handle an EV charger” are two of the most common electrical searches in Santa Cruz County right now, driven largely by older housing stock meeting a genuinely new demand: EV charging, heat pumps, and electrified homes that simply didn’t exist when a lot of local ...

An electric vehicle caught fire at a Santa Clarita home Wednesday morning, prompting Shelter in place orders for the surrounding neighborhood. Around 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, first responders received reports of a electric vehicle smoking in the garage of a home in the 20000 block of Stella Place in Santa Clarita, according to Edith Maria Grycan, a spokesperson for the Los ...

Thursday, Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, Chair of the Select Committee on Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure, convened a joint informational hearing at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) to walk through updates to the electric vehicle (EV) industry since the last hearing of the select committee, to examine persistent barriers to charging access and reliability, and outline successful and efficient programs ...