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The stations - expected in parking decks and shopping centers and at curbsides - are the first of about 350 planned throughout the state, financed largely by the federal stimulus.

Only 350 for the entire state???

And it takes what... 6 hrs to fully recharge a Chevy Volt?? (3 hrs @ 220v??)

I don't think this is gonna work out so well....

1 posted on 07/04/2010 9:18:57 AM PDT by Willie Green
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"The first recharging stations will be activated toward the end of this year, coinciding with the planned commercial release of the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid electric car and the Nissan Leaf all-electric auto. Expected price estimates on the vehicles range from $32,000 to $40,000, and buyers would get a $7,500 federal tax credit.

What a waste of money, you gotta love it.

2 posted on 07/04/2010 9:22:46 AM PDT by WHBates
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Where is the coal going to come from to satisfy the extra electric demand?


3 posted on 07/04/2010 9:24:26 AM PDT by AU72
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A Prius (spit) is a better deal for the money.


4 posted on 07/04/2010 9:25:40 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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Are they going to charge people to charge or are they continuing the fiction that electricity is free when it comes to cars?


5 posted on 07/04/2010 9:26:51 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

6 posted on 07/04/2010 9:26:55 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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financed largely by the federal stimulus

And what happens when the "Stimulus" funds dry up?

7 posted on 07/04/2010 9:27:17 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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I guess that if the grid ever goes out, nobody ain’t going nowhere.


8 posted on 07/04/2010 9:27:50 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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When they can get the range up to over two hundred miles and the recharge time down to under fifteen minutes, then electric cars may become viable.


9 posted on 07/04/2010 9:29:42 AM PDT by reg45
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How much will they charge the customer for the service? Credit/Debit cards only? Do they need to be attended to decrease liability?


10 posted on 07/04/2010 9:29:55 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, you know chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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And it takes what... 6 hrs to fully recharge a Chevy Volt?? (3 hrs @ 220v??)

I wonder about that too. Not exactly like pulling up to the pump and filling up and going five minutes later.

11 posted on 07/04/2010 9:32:02 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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With the experience I've had with rechargeable batteries, they'd really play hell getting me to buy an 'electric' car that was really just a hightech slot car with exotic batteries.

I finally figured out that if I wanted to keep any of my rechargeable tool batteries long-lived, I had to unplug them from the tools. I've had an improvement in life and charge hold time doing that.....wonder how you'd do this in an electric car...

13 posted on 07/04/2010 9:33:24 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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Even the ones I have seen in southern California go unused. If they are not used here, they will definitely sit idle there!


14 posted on 07/04/2010 9:37:14 AM PDT by Moonmad27 (That government is best which governs least. - Henry Thoreaue)
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"And it takes what... 6 hrs to fully recharge a Chevy Volt??"

Indeed. Any child with an electric car would ask the same thing. Electric cars that need to be recharged is a moronic idea. Might as well put all of the recharge stations in hotel parking lots.

16 posted on 07/04/2010 9:39:55 AM PDT by LiberConservative
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Intersting experiment.
Glad someone is trying it because there will be a lot of bugs to work out.

What generates the electricity in Charlotte?


19 posted on 07/04/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by Lorianne
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Good. Next time I’m through there, I’ll stop and recharge my cell phone.


21 posted on 07/04/2010 9:47:10 AM PDT by FrankR ( If we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants win, and we're enslaved.)
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Huge waste of energy and money.


24 posted on 07/04/2010 9:51:00 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Its unsustainable.

More waste on a foolish product that very few can afford.


25 posted on 07/04/2010 9:52:12 AM PDT by dforest
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I once in an emergency had to unplug an outdoor Pepsi machine to charge my cell phone. I wonder if this will work on an electric car?


29 posted on 07/04/2010 9:59:32 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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Hopefully the powerlines they are hooking up these toys to have all been upgraded

Not to mention you don’t need to go anywhere during a power outage


31 posted on 07/04/2010 10:09:17 AM PDT by Flavius
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“Dozens of electric-vehicle charging stations will spring up around Charlotte “

Dozens, I tell you, dozens! And with multi hour recharge times, that will require dozens of parking lots and/or looooong lines.


32 posted on 07/04/2010 10:12:03 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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