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Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers
separsons writes "Telekom Austria, a telecommunications company, aims to convert obsolete public phone booths into electric vehicle recharging stations. The company unveiled its first station yesterday in Vienna and hopes to create 29 more stations by the end of the year. The stations may not be super popular now, but they should be soon; Austria's motor vehicle association says the country will likely have 405,000 electric vehicles on the road by the year 2020."
Why, at that rate, they'll be able to simultaneously recharge 0.06% of the electric cars in the country!
And with the usual 30 milliamp analog phone line current, it will only take about a dozen years to recharge each car.
A toll booth for the PSTN.
> What's a phone booth?
It's like a Police Box, but without the time travel...
Whoa! Dude! That's totally bogus.
This could work, so long as they surround the car parks with a high kangaroo fence...
I'm sorry, Yo Mama jokes with $variables just don't work.
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
Some of us can't understand an Australian accent you insensitive clod!
Only if Austria has phone booths in the Zoo enclosures
How else would the Kangaroos get news from home?
http://michaelsmith.id.au
we have lots of people who carry the electrons for us. they collect them, put them in buckets and dump'em into the phone booth. no problem. most of the time, we just have the kids do that, as they seem to serve no other sensible purpose. how do you do it?
Looks like they already have a marketing plan: http://unternehmen.telekom.at//Content.Node/media/medienarchiv/stromtankstelle_01.jpg
I loved the part where the submitter felt the need to clarify that Telekom Austria is a telecommunications company. Now if only he could tell us which country it's in...
No, but you missed an important part of the story, I'll let you find the mistake yourself.
Hint: You're about one half of a large rotating thing wrong.
Call Centres, staffed by the unemployed, criminals and retired folk will be employed to call the phone boxes constantly to maintain a 50-75 volt DC ringing signal down the line.