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| KB Home to pre-wire homes for electric vehicles KB Home, one of America's premier homebuilders, announced that it will begin offering an option to pre-wire its new Built to Order homes to accommodate charging stations for homeowners' electric vehicles. This new earth-friendly option is designed to ease the future installation of a station to charge an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle conveniently at home. The pre-wire option is now available to KB Home homebuyers nationwide. The Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to drive the efficient and restorative use of resources, recently launched Project Get Ready, a program that aims to help communities prepare for and support plug-in vehicles. KB Home is continually surveying the market to better understand what homebuyers are looking for in a home. Based on this process, the homebuilder has been proactive in incorporating energy-efficient and earth-friendly features that save buyers money, including building all new home communities to strict ENERGY STAR guidelines. KB Home's Built to Order approach also makes it possible for homebuyers to incorporate even more earth-friendly products into their new homes. At the KB Home Studio, the Company is working to educate buyers about ways they can further lower their energy bills and reduce their consumption of natural resources by choosing options from the Company's My Home. My Earth. program. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |