Bay Area hands out $3 million to install home electric car chargers | Grist

The Bay Area Air Management District on Wednesday granted $3.9 million to four companies as part of an effort to roll out electric car charging stations in 2,750 homes, as well as 30 fast-chargers along highways. Depending on the electric car, high-voltage fast chargers can "fill up" a battery in as little as 30 minutes.
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While the San Francisco Bay Area is widely expected to be an electric car epicenter, the first mass-market battery-powered sedans -- the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf -- have been slow to hit local roads so far. I've spotted one Volt on the streets of Berkeley, but have yet to see a Leaf in this city, where one out of every five cars sold over the past four years has been a Toyota Prius hybrid.