What a scam.
Uh how long is going to take it charge the car??
Wow! I feel wonderful, I feel empowered. I feel green!
Just think how green I feel, just knowing that my tax dollars are funding a project to untether the gas pump hose to the coal fired electric plant hose!
What a wonderful global warming solution to the endangered polar bears having to swim a bit further to get to kill an endangered seal, within an endangered ocean.
We, the newly green, are redeemed!
I am so happy to have my tax dollars being wasted on such a grand scale!
(I have no direct knowledge of this -- I simply hear it in the NIST-led Smart Grid development meetings, though I'll be attending the PEV group session during next week's meetings at Grid-Interop in Chicago. )
No discussion about how many amps per charge these little jewels will eat up. For a 220 volt charger, an overnight charge every single day is going to add up pretty darn quickly, and it won’t take the installation of a swarm of these chargers to suddenly overwhelm the local neighborhood grid and fry transformers.
This is one way to force a massive upgrade in the electrical grid...
I will bet Bill Ayers has an investment in it. His father headed one of the power companies.
Well, of you work up the value chain to the source of energy used to charge EVs, then I’d say the biggest player is Peabody Energy (the largest privately owned coal company in the world).
And 2012 when they won't be free? not so much.
“ECOtality and Coulomb are the leaders in the emerging EV-charging market”
Any connection with GE? GE is committed to buying 25,000 Chevy Volts and has been spamming Television with ads for their future charging stations.
We need to end all subsidies for this crap.
Where’s George Soros?
In turn, the feds showered ECOtality with a $115 million grant to install, at no cost, around 15,000 charging stations in homes and public locations through the EV ProjectInstalled at no charge, collected $115 million. Nice work. :') Thanks Jet Jaguar.