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GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids
chareverie writes "General Motors is forming a team with utility companies nationwide to create a charging infrastructure for electric cars. Their goal is to improve the design of charging stations — making them weatherproof and child-proof, for example — in locations such as public garages, meters, and parking lots. They're also working on ways to avoid overwhelming the utilities during peak hours. Their goal is to have these improved charging stations implemented by 2010, when the Chevy Volt is introduced. Everyone recognizes however that a national car-charging infrastructure would be far from complete at that time."
Do they mean wall outlets?
Time to put the tin foil hat on...
Anytime I hear an (fossil burning) auto manufacturer claiming this or that about anything electric I feel like I'm listening to my friend talk about quitting smoking.
"Oh, I'm on ultra-light cigarettes now..."
"Oh, well, we don't have electric cars feasible yet, but we still need to work on the charging infrastructure and stuff anyhow, so..."
The whole hybrid car deal is just red herring, or distraction at best.
I think hybrids are a way for the big players to maintain their hold the industry away from new competition whilst they economically migrate slowly away from petrol manufacturing equipment to electric manufacturing.
I think this tin foil hat isn't working...
Read my Very Short "Stories"
T Boone's wind farm won't be online to power it.
T Boone wants the wind farm to offset using natural gas for power generation. The natural gas would then be used to power vehicles.
That actually make a fair bit of sense as we do have lots of natural gas produced in the US, and would be easier to retrofit vehicles and home to refuel them.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"