Electric vehicles on a large scale to boost sagging retail sales and EWEB revenue won't ever happen in Eugene.  EWEB caved to a small vocal contingent of extremists with a wimpy "opt in" AMI policy that has gone nowhere.  Just a few hundred meters connected to the backbone RF system that blasts the same amount of RF for a fully deployed system blanketing neighborhoods to reach those few meters.  But at least everyone's happy.   The radical group thinks they won and won't clog up board agendas, the Board and Staff can quietly figure out ways to sell electric vehicles to the 1% who want one, cool/expensive "zero emission "marketing campaigns can be bundled in rates, and the rest of us can pay the bills. But buying a major grid overall to support it won't happen either so the rest of us come out ahead.  Rather spend $100m on upgrading the Carmen Smith hydro plant.  At least that investment is in plain site and not slowly bleeding us to death with the most expensive of utility IT budgets.