[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?

[ElayneJ]

The electricity is free? How is this possible, with utility bills “necessarily skyrocketing?”

[Cobra64]

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

Two miles.

[trebb]

I’ll bet there will be more than a few who will think it’s free.

Hmmmm - free electricity. I wonder if I can tapnto that to run some of my house.

More "rebates" to push a product that can't make it via Capitalism and Fee Enterprise - the rest of us pay to bring down the price of the vehicles, then we pay to bring down the price of the owners' operating costs, along with insulating them from the realities of the limitations of the current technology.