Comments on: Top US Electric Car City Could Soon Be… (You’re Never Gonna Guess It)

By: Stephanie Rodgers

Stephanie Rodgers — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:35:00 +0000

My bus company only uses the best fleet systems available. It is necessary for us to have the most up to date and efficient systems. Without it we would be all over the place. Thanks for the post.

By: Pieter Siegers

Pieter Siegers — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Who said renewables do not create enough jobs?

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:17:00 +0000

We’re already installing chargers along the interstate system. A bunch of Level 3 chargers which are much higher voltage than 240 vac.

Interstate Highway 5 from Canada to Mexico is likely to be our first major “electric corridor” and parts of it are already in place with the rest scheduled to be completed soon.

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:08:00 +0000

Certain US states, cities, municipalities are as progressive or more progressive than that. It’s just a ton of work and many of these places don’t have the budget necessary to start saving money, thus making them poorer.

Sigh, it must be nice to have a federal government that could decide on something. It wouldn’t even be hard or that expensive to cover the federal interstate highway system with 240V chargers. They’re already built for 240V, it’s in their building code going back quite some time.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:24:00 +0000

China’s going there…

“EV maker Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. announced that Hangzhou City, China, has started the construction of its first EV smart vertical parking and charging facility to advance its planned five-year goal of establishing a mini-public transportation system which will include up to 100,000 self-service rental EVs and all necessary service infrastructure throughout Hangzhou. (Earlier post.)

The first facility is anticipated to be completed and in use in early July of 2013. According to the project plan, more than 30 pure EV smart vertical parking and charging facilities (including the additional EV sharing service network) will be built by the end of this year in Hangzhou City. Between 5,000 to 10,000 Kandi EVs will be deployed in Hangzhou within one year from the initial launch of the smart vertical parking and charging facility.”

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/06/hangzhou-20130617.html

By: Shiggity

Shiggity — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:00 +0000

Plug this plan into a car sharing model and it gets even better. You get the benefit of electric drive and the total amount of cars on the road decreases.