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Electric car drivers may start paying to charge up at Redwood City stations
San Jose Mercury ^ | 09/03/2014 | Bonnie Eslinger

Posted on 09/03/2014 5:59:39 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Redwood City wants to do something new to electric car drivers: Charge them for charging up their batteries.

Since 2011, the city has provided some charging stations at no cost as part of its effort to fight global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: efv; energy
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To: Alter Kaker

Thank you that is what I have been wondering about.


21 posted on 09/03/2014 8:35:17 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: artichokegrower
the city has provided some charging stations at no cost as part of its effort to fight global warming


22 posted on 09/03/2014 9:27:01 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: freedumb2003
"electric cars just move the carbon emissions, it doesn't curtail them"

Electric cars are close to 100 efficient. Gasoline cars are only about 30% efficient. Most of the energy is given off as heat that goes out the tailpipe or radiator.

23 posted on 09/03/2014 9:45:31 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Alter Kaker; Ditter
The True Cost of Powering an Electric Car
24 posted on 09/03/2014 10:16:02 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

did they really think it would always be “free”?


25 posted on 09/03/2014 10:24:18 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Ben Ficklin; Ditter
The True Cost of Powering an Electric Car

Thanks - and I don't disagree with anything in the article, although the emphasis is a bit weird, which basically just seems to be to say that it's important to understand your electric bill if you're interested in figuring out the electric cost of operating an electric car. Electric rates can vary pretty significantly depending on a number of things.

BTW, re: Hawaii, I agree with the author that it has far and away the highest electric rates in the country, but he doesn't point out that it also has the highest gasoline prices. So the bottom line is that Hawaii is an expensive place to get around no matter how you want to do it.

26 posted on 09/03/2014 11:52:06 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Ben Ficklin

I wouldn’t trust that site.’

They claimed to have run a long-distance evaluation of the Tesla, something like 20,000 miles, and they said (indirectly) that it is a PIECE OF JUNK.

Now we all know that can’t be true, as President Obama has told us it is the car of the future - so I suspect that Edmunds SABOTAGED their vehicle, causing it to destroy tires at 10,000 miles and go through THREE DRIVETRAINS.

...otherwise I would have to believe that our president and the Democrats are not being forthright with us. LOL.


27 posted on 09/03/2014 4:07:43 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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