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March 15, 2010 By Merrill Douglas
President Barack Obama has called on the U.S. to put 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015. But the country won't get anywhere close to that number until drivers are confident they can find places to recharging stations.
How best to deploy a network of charging stations and jump-start the market for EVs are questions at the heart of the EV Project, a two-year study in five states that will put drivers in thousands of all-electric cars starting late this year. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $99.8 million grant to the project in August 2009.
While an efficient gas-powered car can run 350 miles or more on a 12-gallon fill up, a battery charge will take an all-electric vehicle only 100 to 200 miles. Most electric car drivers will recharge them at home or at work, but if they want to use their vehicles for more than just local trips, they will need to plug them in while out and about.
Fear of getting stranded if they drive too far makes many people leery of electric cars. "People already have 'range anxiety,'" said Colleen Crowninshield, manager of the Clean Cities Program at the Pima Association of Governments (PAG), in Tucson, Ariz., one of more than 40 partners in the EV Project.
Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), a Phoenix-based developer of vehicle charging stations that heads the project consortium, will install 4,700 chargers in the homes and businesses of drivers who participate in the study, as well as 6,510 chargers in commercial and public locations.
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For more information about Idaho National Laboratory's battery testing research projects, visit the lab's facebook site. http://www.facebook.com/idahonationallaboratory
For more information about Idaho National Laboratory's battery testing research projects, visit the lab's facebook site. http://www.facebook.com/idahonationallaboratory
For more information about Idaho National Laboratory's battery testing research projects, visit the lab's facebook site. http://www.facebook.com/idahonationallaboratory
I live in Portland Oregon and would like more information on how I could participate in this study.
I live in Portland Oregon and would like more information on how I could participate in this study.
I live in Portland Oregon and would like more information on how I could participate in this study.
To participate in the study please visit the Nissan website or www.theevproject.com and contact the Area Manager from eTec on how to participate.
To participate in the study please visit the Nissan website or www.theevproject.com and contact the Area Manager from eTec on how to participate.
To participate in the study please visit the Nissan website or www.theevproject.com and contact the Area Manager from eTec on how to participate.
What a complete and utter waste of taxpayer monies... This has been tried by GM with the EV-1, AND FAILED, before in California.
What a complete and utter waste of taxpayer monies... This has been tried by GM with the EV-1, AND FAILED, before in California.
What a complete and utter waste of taxpayer monies... This has been tried by GM with the EV-1, AND FAILED, before in California.
Where are the batteries being manufactured for these? Who is manufacturing them? It does not help to reduce the impact of the oil industry if we up the impact of the battery industry. What process is being developed to recycle these batteries? Throwing them in the ocean is not a good option....and its what we are doing currently.
Where are the batteries being manufactured for these? Who is manufacturing them? It does not help to reduce the impact of the oil industry if we up the impact of the battery industry. What process is being developed to recycle these batteries? Throwing them in the ocean is not a good option....and its what we are doing currently.
Where are the batteries being manufactured for these? Who is manufacturing them? It does not help to reduce the impact of the oil industry if we up the impact of the battery industry. What process is being developed to recycle these batteries? Throwing them in the ocean is not a good option....and its what we are doing currently.
do you think electric cars would actually work??!haha...i bet they wont even last long for travel...you're gonna have to have electric charge stop in every corner of every other boulevards.that wouldnt probably take me from my house to school...but i like the intent of change though.just need to make sure that this will be better for the best...
do you think electric cars would actually work??!haha...i bet they wont even last long for travel...you're gonna have to have electric charge stop in every corner of every other boulevards.that wouldnt probably take me from my house to school...but i like the intent of change though.just need to make sure that this will be better for the best...
do you think electric cars would actually work??!haha...i bet they wont even last long for travel...you're gonna have to have electric charge stop in every corner of every other boulevards.that wouldnt probably take me from my house to school...but i like the intent of change though.just need to make sure that this will be better for the best...
It makes more sense there than anyplace in America. If they can't make it there, forget it.
It makes more sense there than anyplace in America. If they can't make it there, forget it.
It makes more sense there than anyplace in America. If they can't make it there, forget it.
I have been driving a plug-in electric vehicle (stndard 120 volt outlet) for almost three years now, and there is no way I am going back. I even have a spair charging station behind my couch. Frends and some businesses are cooperative,and I have a contract with my employer to purchase electricity. The savings are fantastic ($0.02 per mile)
I have been driving a plug-in electric vehicle (stndard 120 volt outlet) for almost three years now, and there is no way I am going back. I even have a spair charging station behind my couch. Frends and some businesses are cooperative,and I have a contract with my employer to purchase electricity. The savings are fantastic ($0.02 per mile)
I have been driving a plug-in electric vehicle (stndard 120 volt outlet) for almost three years now, and there is no way I am going back. I even have a spair charging station behind my couch. Frends and some businesses are cooperative,and I have a contract with my employer to purchase electricity. The savings are fantastic ($0.02 per mile)