Even I would balk at that! $25,000 per charging station when a $15 GFCI ouitlet from Home Depot can do the same thing most of the time!
> http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/140/article/120539/ > PG&E wants ratepayers to pay bill for $653M in car chargers > The state’s biggest utility wants to install 25,000 electric car charging > stations across Northern and Central California and have customers foot > the bill. > More than 60,000 plug-in electric vehicles are currently registered in > PG&E’s service area in Central and Northern California. > But there are only 1,991 charging stations statewide, according to the > U.S. Lets see. That's 1 public charger already exists for every 30 EV's already. Or about 3%.. Yep That coincidently matches the State of Maryland's determination that 97% of all charging at work can be done from standard 120v outlets while vehicles are parked at work.. EV's are not optimum nor designed for distant travel. Throwing money at the problem to try to make EV's distant travlers will disappoint EVERYONE and in the long run undermine EV acceptance. We need to focus on educating the public that EV's are best used for local travel and commuter cars. Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)