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Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

Plugs and Cars

He wasn’t in uniform, so I figured he was another of those early adopter techie types buying EVs. But now they are back on the fence, holding off on getting a plug-in car. Bill lives a good 60 miles from San Francisco, so he needs to get some juice to make his trip home after work. Maybe they tout it as smart and cheap.

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The Workplace Charging Challenge

Plugs and Cars

In the luxury car market you can feel that the ground has begun to shift. After numerous awards and accolades, it seems fair to say that the best luxury car is an electric car. Level 1 makes it easy for business to join the effort and is adequate for drivers, most of whom would recover their commute’s needed electricity.

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Keepin' it simple

Plugs and Cars

If a complete overnight charge is the goal, 120V will still suffice for a Volt, but a 240V EVSE will be essential for most who buy an all-electric car. They’ve kept my LEAF juiced, after all. It isn’t helpful to the “cause,” those picking up their new plug-in cars or those who are considering it.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive.