Raleigh opens stations for charging electric cars

newsobserver.com ^ | Nov 25, 2010 | RAY MARTIN

[sergeantdave]

Wouldn’t it make more sense to drive into a fuel station and swap the battery for a fully charged battery? Why wait three hours for a charge when you could exchange in a few minutes?

[Hotlanta Mike]

The are developing a long range battery with high mileage but so far the only practical cars are hybrids.

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The batteries still have to be charged using electricity. How is that going to be generated, by coal, oil, solar, wind, or nuclear? If you want zero emission vehicles then we have to convert to hydrogen or natural gas powered vehicles.

[Army Air Corps]

Typo on my part. That should have been “improvised.”

[Tucker39]

I really don’t care if they run on bubble gum. I never have had a problem with coal. We have enough KNOWN coal deposits right now to last several centuries! It’s the hypocrisy of it all. Back in ‘07 and ‘08, along with the Obummer campaign ads, there was a scathing TV ad running in the evening news time period, supposedly ripping away the curtain and revealing that there is no such thing as CLEAN COAL, and how BAD it is for the Environment. So now that the commie libs’ trojan horse is in the White House, burning coal and coal-fired electricity is A-O.K.! The term, POLITICAL WHORE$ comes to mind!

[SteamShovel]

Yeah, nothing will go wrong here. Punk kids will unplug cars or sever the cables. Homeless folks will try to plug things into the outlets. I foresee some lawsuits involving electrocution.

< / sarc >

[alancarp]

All we need now is 100 mile long extension cords.

I have problems enough with 25 footers.