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tomman58 wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

LindsayRichards wrote:
Our town has two solar charging stations (adjacent) that after 2 years are awaiting their first customer. It was put in for free by a federal grant.

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Yah, you know they do the same stupid stuff up here. What are they thinking. They put these publicly funded ones in the dumbest of places. Colleges, city hall parking lots, libraries. If they really feel the need to spend tax dollars to put in charging infrastructure to encourage electric vehicles then do local studies to find out where they would have the most usage. We have one down town on a public lot thats actually not to badly located. It's a few extra blocks to most of the stuff we need but still doable. If I am down town for a couple hours we use it. On this one it is tap and go with the credit card. Technically you are just paying for parking and since you have to pay for parking anyway, what the heck.

Plug share is a good app and I can see where some places including malls are getting on board. It'll get better in time.

Here in the D we have many charging stations and from what I gather plenty more to come. I think with the new electrics coming out in the next couple years the demand will grow a lot.
We loved our Volt and would have gotten another but it sounded like so many new ones were in the pipeline we would wait for a couple years before getting our next one. I might add several areas here are "free" charge zones!

We liked our test drive in the volt but the idea of the extended range for us with the gas back up wasn't necessary for our life style and needs. Straight electric is a better fit for us. No oil changes, filters, belts etc. Top up the washer fluid once per year and we are done. At some point we'll swap out our other oil burner for a second electric in a few years. For that one we are thinking the 200 mile range of the 2017 leaf might be a good fit. We'll see.