Comments on: Charge your car!

By: Harrison W

Harrison W — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:09:27 +0000

Doesn't Google state in their Clean Energy 2030 plan that electricity consumption should remain stagnant or grow at roughly 1% a year? How exactly do they see this happening?

By: Born Yesterday

Born Yesterday — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:08:25 +0000

Well Jeff, since the west coast is the area where this is most likely going to be a *potential* issue, it's the west that should be getting the added electricity boost. Look up new solar projects in the west on Google and you'll probably see a whole laundry list of grants that were just dished out to private companies for Federal lands in the deserts.

By: Jeff C.

Jeff C. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:06:46 +0000

The biggest problem here is: how can we ensure our electric grids ramp up production capacity to keep up as we add cars to the network? As of now, the amount of cars added poses a relatively small overload risk, but these areas are attempting to add hundreds of thousands of cars (all plugged into 140 or 220V stations) en mass in the next couple years.

By: Adam Brooks

Adam Brooks — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:46:57 +0000

A great part of this drive here is the "EV War": initiated by a playful challenge from the mayors of San Francisco and Portland to compete to be the first city fully charged by renewables to power city-wide fleets of all-electric cars. http://electriccarrace.org/ So far, San Jose has surpassed both San Francisco and Portland in electric charging stations installed - its close proximity to Coulomb Technologies, Tesla, and Better Place offices certainly helps, but expect other green cities to join in the race soon.