http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/ Engadget Comments for Coulomb begins worldwide EV domination with ChargePoint expansion to Australia and Poland http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/..... wtf....i really cant express how stupid u are. blackouts in poland were like 30-40 years ago.... for 20 years of my life it has never happend again...]]>May 29th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/He means that there will BE blackouts because of so many cars sucking electricity from the power grid.
Countries need to start building more and more polluting power plants to provide power to more and more electricity cars.

The electric car is the dumbest idea ever, instead of powering cars using fuel we will need to build more power plants using even more fuel as power plants pullout more then the cars they power!!
ONLY CO2 engines are the solution not electricity!]]>May 29th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
Since, these cars use more power than everything else we do. And since our current vehicles run from oil, a substance that we kill eachother over and burned off 40% of the supply that took 5 million years to make.

You're the type of future stopping moron we need to get rid of. What else is a dumb idea, solar power because it puts electric company workers out of a job?]]>May 29th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
you realize, that either way, this electricity is coming from oil?

it may be more efficient, but this is by no means the future.]]>May 29th 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/Anyway, cars running on electricity still burn fuel to make that electricity, Instead of the car burning the fuel it will be done at the power plant. Big deal. Only CO2 will replace fuel all together, forever, AND it only requires water witch is almost free compared to oil.

If there are test buses in Europe ruining on CO2 so can America do the same. All you need is smart leadership who plans for the future!]]>May 29th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
How long will these car batteries last? How expensive are they? How do they hold up over time (new they go 200 miles, old they go 70 miles). Charge times for new vs old batteries. What about disposal of this newly massive amount of battery waste? I have never seen anyone answer these questions in a serious way, only with pie in the sky hopes. ]]>May 29th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
Why is it stupid?]]>May 29th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
Having a crappier car without the "instant charge" petrol gives to pretend to be environmentally friendly in a country mostly powered by coal seems pretty stupid to me.]]>May 29th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/I could very well be wrong, but a coal plant is probably more efficient at producing useful energy than a petrol engine.]]>May 29th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
An electric car powered by a coal plant is still better for the environment than the best gas powered car.]]>May 29th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
Trust me, I *love* cars and love geeky stuff. I *can't wait* for the day I can afford to cover my roof in solar panels, my house is full of efficient bulbs and electronics and kitchen equipment. I turn lights and stuff off whenever I can, I work from home, I don't water my lawn, etc. But some of this stuff just doesn't make sense yet. Someone will come up with something that works, and is good enough to stand on its own without wasteful government loans and grants, but its not lithium or nickel battery powered cars (maybe it will end up being some super-super capacitors, that would be cool). The comments about a poor power grid capacity are also spot on. As someone who used to work in the utility industry I can tell you we couldn't possibly support even a 25% change over to electric cars, even on east coast. Not yet. 5 miles/kw, 12,000 miles a year, 200kw a month (current avg US household uses 920kWh of power) so about a 21.7% increase in power usage per household with an electric car, ignoring charging losses. We are talking serious loads on the grid there.

Honestly, one of the best possible things we could do for the environment, related to automobiles, is to work from home as much as possible, and keep our cars as long as possible. My current car is a 2006 Subaru STI with 52k miles on it, replacing a 1997 geo prism with 180k miles on it. My wife drives a 2000 Honda Civic with 178k miles on it. We drive around 7,500 miles a year, each (this year will be less I suspect). For the math lovers out there, yes the civic saw many more miles then 7500 a year at one point in its life.. prior to working at home. The STI *might* not be the most efficient car (lol) but since I'll keep it 3 times longer, and drive one third the miles of many of the hybrid owners it more or less evens out (and boy is it more fun then a prius. lol).

If we could get even a small percentage of the white collar workforce in this country telecommuting think of the massive reduction in miles driven and fuel used? Why does corporate America resist it so much? Do your shopping locally (farmers markets for food, etc) and online (the UPS guy probably drives past your house everyday anyway. Use the empty space on that truck and use less fuel then you going out to get it yourself from the superstore).

Battery tech just isn't there yet for a car. On a similar topic, hopefully solar tech will really come down in costs and more of us can switch to solar. Anyway, there is my wall of text for the day.]]>May 29th 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
Gas cars can only run on oil products. Electric cars are neergy agnostic, and will keep running fine as we gradually transition to a mixture of nuclear and renewables. You seem religiously fanatical about CO2 cars, but calm down, there's room for multiple technologies.

@dicobalt

The reason you've never received answers to those questions is because you haven't bothered to do the necessary research. You're not likely to run into a battery expert just walking about on the street or commenting on Engadget stories. I can tell you, however, that Lithium batteries are nontoxic, easy to recycle and require no smelting during manufacture or recycling. Most types last 10-15 years, and you pay them off gradually as part of your lease.

@bp968

Actually, the batteries are nontoxic. The lithium carbonate used is refined from a mineral salt. They don't use the toxic heavy metals present in NiMH or lead acid batteries and thus don't require the energy intensive, dirty smelting during manufacture and recycling. Current gen lithium batteries last 10-15 years and can be paid off gradually over their useful lifespan.


Anyway, dealing with these comments has really disappointed me. Seems many people remain pretty ignorant about electric vehicle technology, but are convinced they know everything that they need to.

]]>May 29th 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
I wish Australia would move to nuclear and renewable energy, but the Australian people have been convinced the nuclear boogeyman will get them, and they don't want a nuclear power plant "in their backyard".

As far as I'm concerned current electric cars are about as good for the environment as the recent emissions trading scheme that was recently thrown out which amounted to "here's an excuse to tax people more".]]>May 29th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
College students living on campus lack the ability to plug their car in, also. Not many college students are driving electric cars at this point, but if they do see mass-adoption, there will need to be a solution.]]>May 29th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/europe-gets-first-fast-charging-ev-station-hungers-for-more/]]>May 29th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/With the lack in understanding of greener forms of power in the country. Australia seems to be a slow up taker. Lacking EV cars with also what cars are out are lacking ranges greater then 300km's this is big issue as large part of Australia travails 40km's to 100km's one way to work. I myself would be all for EV cars but without companies like tesla backing the EV stations this could end in a lost corse.

Sadly testa has been mistaken in thinking Australia is small market for getting the avg. car size in this country is far great in size to the avg. European cars. In turn Australians are more likely to spend a lot more money on a car then the united states or Europe. with avg. prices of $40,000+ per car.

Also EV stations could easily find there powered by solar or wind on site.

In my mind fast food stores should help in this area. With most families happily eating a meal in store for more then 30mins.
With greener power sources on site fast food stores could in-turn have free power and charge customers for food and power cutting greatly down on business running cost and making these EV stations sustainable in the long term. and taking large load off the main grid. Sadly people don't listen.]]>May 29th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
I am greatly upset by people in there replies about EV cars and even power as a whole. I myself am not a greenie but feel thinking suitable is smarter and in the long run cheaper.
With the tesla costing less then $2.00 to charge on the grid. With no gears, oil, axles, gearbox or many other breakable parts the car over a year saves in service cost and fuel. what has happened to people thinking smarter.

Has anyone ever been in a shopping centre and walked up-to the escalator and it was moving yet no one was on it. no sensor to tell it to turn off why was sensors not used??. Have we as a human race become that lazy we don't wish to think smart about anything anymore. Tesla if anything has shown us it is posable to have the cake and eat it to.

Companies that think smarter could still make a income off EV cars without the use of oil. Coles and Safeway have fuel stations in most towns. if the supermarkets had roofs of solar power on them customers could foot the cost on there shopping bill with the the companies cutting power cost and making money at same time. employing the same number of people to look after the power grid on each shop as they would in maintaining there fuel stations. WIN WIN

THINK SMARTER NOT STUPID..]]>May 29th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/May 29th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/coulomb-begins-worldwide-ev-domination-with-chargepoint-expansio/
A: emit wlan.
B: handle some telephone communication
C: let me charge my phone.
D: have a solar panel on them.
E: measure weather.
F: measure pollution.
G:contain computers which can be connected to a huge network.(cloud computers)
H:emit location information so if gps dies in 2012, I know where i am.

ect,ect........ insert lots of other your good ideas below.

if your abut to build a huge infrastructure , and polute the world with hundreds of thousands of (if not millions) of high tech stations, why not make them useful beyond the initial function. It seems like a perfect opportunity to rebuild the entire telecommunications network.



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