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."

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Let's check the numbers...

[Firethorn]

I'm not a statistician, but as a check on numbers:
Population, Australia: 21,431,800 (2009)
Number of Vehicles registered: 15,674,436
Percent of Vehicles compared to population: 73%
Population growth: 1.69%
Pop in 2020: 25.3M, est
Cars in 2020: 18.5M, est
Estimated % electric cars, according to their estimate: 2.2%

I'll note that my quick growth check means that there will be something like 2.8 Million additional cars on the road in 2020, which means that only 14% of GROWTH would be in electric vehicles.