Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid

Mike writes "Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States. The Bay Area will be partnering with Better Place to create an essential electric vehicle infrastructure, marking a huge step towards the acceptance of electric vehicles as a viable alternative to those that run on fossil fuels." Inhabitat.com has some conceptual illustrations and a map showing EV infrastructure, such as battery exchange stations, stretching from Sacramento to San Diego — though this is far more extensive than the Bay Area program actually announced, which alone is estimated to cost $1 billion.

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Unintended consequences

[girlintraining]

So I take my used up, chemically destroyed battery to some government-sponsored facility and exchange it for a brand new one, and it costs me nothing? That's good!

But terrorists now have a great place to load up on acids that can be used to build bombs -- the government will now keep the raw materials in sealed plastic containers and give them away as "bio-friendly" electric car batteries. That's bad.

It'll create zero emissions and be cheaper to recharge than refill. That's good!

The batteries contain lead and other things that reeeeally shouldn't go into landfills. That's bad.

But they'll come with a free coupon! That's good!

The coupon is also cursed...