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GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids

Posted by kdawson on from the quart-of-oil-and-ten-kilowatts-please dept.

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."

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  1. Batman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Asia Ferguson waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were coasters in the park. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Dad were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
    Asia was a hat wearing nigga for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the coasters and he said to dad "I want to be on the coasters daddy."
    Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY COASTERS"
    There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the park at the base of the coaster he knew there were coasters.
    "This is DAD" the radio crackered. "You must fight the coasters!"
    So Asia gotted his hat and climbed up the wall.
    "HE GOING TO KILL US" said the coasters
    "I will shoot at him" said the coaster and he fired the a line of cars. Asia nigged at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
    "No! I must kill the coasters" he shouted
    The radio said "No, Asia. You are batman"
    And then Asia was dead.

  2. Re:With GMs luck. by pete-classic · · Score: -1, Troll

    But once all the gasoline burning cars are out of the cities, why would the affluent and influential city dwellers agitate for cleaner power generation? Or the huge-voting-block suburbanites? Surely they (we?) should, and would like to think they would, but I don't think that's very realistic.

    I have always held that plug-in electric cars are classist, as they merely offload pollution to economically depressed areas.

    Of course, the only answer that makes any sense is nuclear, but it seems like we're never going to get another nuclear plant in the U.S.

    Madness.

    -Peter