[Jet Jaguar]

Is it free to charge? They have to pay to park.

[Benchim]

It will close very soon. No one is going to buy a car that goes 40 miles and takes 3 hours to charge!!

[RightGeek]

Meeker said the pods are meant for drivers who fully charge their cars at home but want to recharge for an hour or two to get a few extra miles of power while they're downtown.

Translation: it's pointless

[max americana]

“The recharging stations, with 9-foot cords, will provide free electricity, though drivers will need to pay the parking meter. “

or how long does it take? If it takes me 10 hours to fully charge a car just to drive it 2 miles, what’s the use?

[tcrlaf]

Why do I have a vision ten years in to the future of these things only being used to plug in Christamas lights?

[Army Air Corps]

Raleigh's initial stations are being donated by Eaton Corp., an Ohio-based company with operations throughout the Triangle and the state. They would have cost about $3,000 each had thecity paid for them, said Nelson Daniels, Raleigh's sustainability technician.

So, you were only able to install them because they were free and not because there was a real demand for them.

[ltc8k6]

Well, it’s “free” in that the public is paying for it.

Subsidize the cars, the chargers, and the electricity...

[Jet Jaguar]

A 9 foot cord on the station in front of city hall. The copper thieves will have easy pickings after dark.

This is the problem with these "free stations"

Nobody has an interest in monitoring them because nobody is invested in if the stations are operational.

It's like a broken "push to activate walk" button at an intersection. Nobody but the city will fix it. It may take months for somebody to report it, then months to have it repaired.

The city does not care. They have to fix it but they have no profit in doing so.

A private company would fix it as soon as the company figured out it's not working and it's not making money for the company.

[rockinqsranch]

“....most of them financed by federal stimulus money.”

There they go again! “FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY”. SHEESH!

Q. Where’d that money come from?

A. The Federal Stimulus Tree.

[Jet Jaguar]

80 electric car charging stations planned in SC
The Item ^ | Nov 22, 2010 | N/A
Posted on November 22, 2010 11:31:35 AM EST by Jet Jaguar

Related article.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2631286/posts

[Cobra64]

"There are a lot of people interested in green activities right now, and this is certainly one of them."

Yeah, but I thought the coal powered electricity generating plants produced these emissions:

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[FlingWingFlyer]

The recharging stations, with 9-foot cords, will provide free electricity, though drivers will need to pay the parking meter.

Um. So where is the "free electricity" coming from and who is "donating" it? I'd like to get me some of that "free electricity" action. I was always taught that you don't get anything for free so this is new to me.

[doubleA]

All we need now is 100 mile long extension cords.

[DaxtonBrown]

“We’re trying to get ahead of this, but also trying to anticipate consumer demand,”

I can anticipate the demand right now, for free.

[csvset]

Those will be part of a bigger wave that will bring more than 350 recharging stations to North Carolina, most of them financed by federal stimulus money.

Wow, not only is it federal money, it's federal stimulus money !

I feel a tingle going up my leg, right into my wallet.

Federal money ! Like it's from the land of rainbows and ponies. It's taxpayer's money, squandered on a snake oil scam.

[RoadTest]

Where’s all this electric power going to come from if the Demonazis won’t let new power plants be built?

[Lion Den Dan]

If these toys were of any use, the government would not be building charging stations. It would be private enterprise. Get the government out of our private transportation. CORRECTION: GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR TRANSPORTATION.