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The charge point at the Martinez Amtrak Station on Thursday, July 29, 2010
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has a gift for all you electric car drivers: free electricity. Mayor Lee will announce today that nearly 90 new plug-ins will be installed in city-owned garages where electric car owners can freely top off their cars so they can make it home without stalling in the middle of Highway 101, the Examiner reports.
The program will run until 2013 when the electricity will likely start to cost some money. Until then drivers who need a little extra can fill up at city-owned garages or the San Francisco Airport. Mayor Lee told the Examiner that he hopes the program will "build confidence in the new technology."
Money from several sources will be paying for the $300,000 bill, including some money from the $3.9 million that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is using to build new charging stations and give rebates to folks with chargers at their homes.
Last July, the Bay Citizen took a trip to visit an electric charger at the Martinez Amtrak station and reported that as of last year there were just 1,100 electric cars on California roadways. The state's goal is to have 60,000 electric and 85,000 plug-in hybrids by 2017
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EVs : The Future of Car !
It’s Official: DBM Energy’s Electric Car Battery Is Real !
New independent test confirms 454.82 km driving range on one charge!
It weighs just 770 pounds,
For comparison, the Tesla Roadster’s pack, which claims 245 miles of range, weighs 990 pounds.
The car’s creators even claimed a 6 minute recharge time.
It passed extensive independent safety tests, demonstrated endurance of 5000 charging cycles, this battery will last 27 years.
Lithium cells of Kolibri Lithium battery have undergone a very rigorous tests according to the video from the website of German Ministry For The Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Mr. Hoffmann also cites estimates that the mass-production cost of a 98.8 kWh version of the pack would range from 800 to 1,000 euros, or from about $1,100 to $1,400, which is thousands below current costs.
Plus, Nano-Optonics Energy Inc of Japan will produce electric vehicles with in-wheel motors.
It will travel 300km on a single charge - about double what current electric cars can get and employ four motors, one for each wheel.
And SIM-Drive said the price of final electric car should be "on the same level as gasoline-powered cars."
Who can resist this fascinating technology ?
Kent Beuchert
Level 1 and level 2 charging stations have no place outside of the home.
San Francisco is simply throwing away money to subsidize the very few
drivers that each of these slow charging stations can handle per day.
I wish that local govts that don't know anything about a technology, such as electric cars, would refrain from spending their citizen's money in such foolish ways. It's obvious that these people are trying to
prove they are green, but have actually proven that they are not qualified
to make decisions about same.
Aldo Moretti
That's right !
It doesn't matter which public tax money account is being tapped for electric vehicles, it's a waste.
Sales of EV's are dismal, and this is just another scam for a few corporations to get rich off of our federal tax dollars.
PG&E says they are not worried about electric vehicles overloading our power grid, why ?, because not many people can afford or are interested in EV's.
What PG&E is very worried about is the enormous new load put on by the power grid by the new automated billing meters. There must be at least 6 million new electric meters in PG&E territory (the gas meters are battery powered). Some of those meters are collector/repeater meters, which transmit 1.5 watts of RF per hour, and use about 2 watts of electrical energy per hour to do so.
PG&E says that they are going to need more power plants to supply all the new load of the meters, and guess who will have to pay for all of it ?