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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 4:48 p.m.

Integrating solar into our lives is "great stuff!"

Robert Noble is the CEO of Envision Solar, which just launched "clean charge" -- a hybrid/electric car recharging station.

"There's so many companies now that are coming out with great electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and where are you gonna plug them in?" says Noble. 

Clean Charge is still in the development phase, but Noble says the future is here.

'Solar trees' are mounted on the top of a parking structure, providing shade to the cars below and soaking up the sun's rays. Noble says, in the future, each one of these trees will have an outlet, maybe two, so that solar electric cars can just plug right in."

It would take several hours to fully charge an electric car now, but Noble says 'fast charge' systems are on the way. "It may be two, three years when we start seeing plenty of opportunity to charge in our electric vehicles."

...and start using solar for all it's worth. 

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