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Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid
blairerickson writes "A US firm Thursday unveiled plans to build a massive one-billion-dollar charging network to power electric cars in Australia as it seeks cleaner and cheaper options to petrol. Better Place, which has built plug-in stations for electric vehicles in Israel and Denmark, has joined forces with Australian power company AGL and finance group Macquarie Capital to create an Australian network. Under the plan, the three cities will each have a network of between 200,000 and 250,000 charge stations by 2012 where drivers can plug in and power up their electric cars. The points would probably be at homes and businesses, car parks and shopping centres. In addition, 150 switch stations will be built in each city and on major freeways, where electric batteries can be automatically replaced in drive-in stations similar to a car wash." I hope they're talking to the car companies about the necessary standardization it would take to make this work, too.
Why not a lot of really long extension cords?
-- Make America hate again!
This is just a distraction; I'd much prefer to drive a WATER-powered car, like one of these:
Water-Powered Car 1 Incredible invention by Stanley Meyer (R.I.P.)
Water-Powered Car 2 Another one, just unveiled in 2008 by Japanese company Genepax.
Water-Powered Car 3 Denny Klein's car goes 100 miles on four ounces of water.
Water-Powered Car 4 Daniel Dingel runs his car on water, too.
Water-Powered Car 5 Yet another website on the subject.
I think I'm going to need an easier, car-based analogy to fully understand this.
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams [...]."
...plans to build a massive one-billion-dollar charging network
Sounds pretty useless. How many australians can be charged one billion dollars?
>>>But, alas, the first car in front (for these fools) is always the one at fault. And they extend this stupid mentanility to all aspects of their life.
P.S. This is why, in additional to the front-facing horn, God also invented the rear-facing middle finger. It's almost become an automatic response with me:
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Finger.
Beeep-beeep-beeep. Finger.
I want them to know that I think they are "#1".
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Clearly he was a Sour Kraut.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.