First big piece of 'Electric Highway' gets juice

[skipper]

lol, so progess is taking more time out of your lives...all to get away from that evil, OIL.....why don't we just go back to horse and buggy..

No, these are promising advancements for our future. Back to the horse and buggy? You sound like a reincarnation from the horseless carriage opposition.

 

[Zander]

How wonderful. Except in California more than 60% of the power for electricity comes from OIL.

What about the batteries? How are they made? Environnutters refuse to use their brains ....

 

[pete]

In a state plagued with brown outs ... hope you have more than 20 minutes or the GAS tank is full

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

First big piece of 'Electric Highway' gets juice
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 3/16/12 | Jeff Barnard
First big piece of 'Electric Highway' gets juice - San Jose Mercury News

Electric car drivers hit the road Friday to inaugurate the first major section of a West Coast "Electric Highway" dotted with stations where they can charge up in 20 minutes.


The stretch of 160 miles of Interstate 5 served by eight stations marks the next big step in developing an infrastructure that until now has been limited primarily to chargers in homes and workplaces.


The stations go from the California border north to the Oregon city of Cottage Grove and are located at gas stations, restaurants and motels just off the nation's second-busiest interstate. One is at an inn that was once a stage coach stop.


Spaced about every 25 miles, the stations allow a Nissan Leaf with a range of about 70 miles to miss one and still make it to the next. Electric car drivers will be able to recharge in about 20 minutes on the fast-chargers. The charge is free for now.


"I would say range-anxiety with these fast chargers will be nearly a non-issue for me," said Justin Denley, who owns a Nissan Leaf and joined the caravan. Inspired by the stations, his family is planning a trip from Medford to Portland, a distance of about 280 miles. Last summer, he took the family on a 120-mile trip to the coast and had to include an overnight stop at an RV park to charge up.


He expects the trip to Portland to take perhaps three hours longer than in a gas car, because the only chargers available for the last 100 miles are slower, level 2 chargers.


(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...

Oh boy, a new Solyndra project.

What a bunch of retards....

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

How wonderful. Except in California more than 60% of the power for electricity comes from OIL.

What about the batteries? How are they made? Environnutters refuse to use their brains ....

They're terminally stuck-on-stupid aren't they? Let's get off oil and use batteries that are charge with electricity produced by oil. It's one stupid fairy tale after another wit hthese goofballs.

 

[Dot Com]

The luddite-force is strong in this thread as was predicted.

 

[Avorysuds]

Where does the energy come from that powers these cars?

/owned.

 

[WillowTree]

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The luddite-force is strong in this thread as was predicted.

Yeah, no shit.... let's go back to batteries and windmills.

Greenies are such dinosaurs.

 

[LoneLaugher]

How wonderful. Except in California more than 60% of the power for electricity comes from OIL.

What about the batteries? How are they made? Environnutters refuse to use their brains ....

One of the brighter nutters. But still painfully stupid.

 

[Zander]

How wonderful. Except in California more than 60% of the power for electricity comes from OIL.

What about the batteries? How are they made? Environnutters refuse to use their brains ....

One of the brighter nutters. But still painfully stupid.

Good intentions, Unicorn farts, and rainbows do not generate electricity. The manufacturing of batteries that are used in these cars require massive amounts of fuel and generate tons and tons of CO2 emissions. What you are really accomplishing by buying an electric car is moving the tailpipe. Nothing more....

 

[LoneLaugher]

Ridiculous.