Ah, the old infrastructure bugaboo... Well, it's good to see that at least the Germans are moving forward on making the ownership and use of an electric vehicle easier by addressing this issue. This is thanks to a joint venture by Daimler AG and energy provider RWE AG.
It's called e-mobility Berlin, and is described as the world's largest joint project for environmentally friendly electric cars. Daimler will provide around 100 electric cars from Mercedes-Benz and smart as well as the vehicle service and RWE will install and operate 500 charging points in customer's homes, workplaces, public parking areas and through agreements with businesses such as shopping centers. The initiative is also being supported by the German federal government.
ateixeira says:
07:29 AM, 09/18/08
This type of partnership is cool. A utility, a car maker, and a retail complex coming together. Kudos.
firstwagon says:
08:49 AM, 09/20/08
I wonder what the long term effect of frequent partial charges would be on the batteries.