Coulomb to electrify California with 1,600 shiny new EV chargers

Fret not, Cali residents. Your state government may be desperately sinking into the quagmire of its own extravagance, but cash will always be found to fund good old "private" enterprise. Coulomb Technologies is expected to today announce the rollout of 1,600 ChargePoint stations across the sunny state, aided in part by a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission. The principal aim of these installations will actually be research, as the state tries to figure out EV usage and recharging habits. Happily though, once that academic exercise is over, they should still be operational and might well make Coulomb's home patch the most advanced in terms of EV infrastructure yet. Yes indeed, we'll all be driving our Volts along potholed streets with nary a public servant in sight... it'll be like Mad Max: Beyond Budgetary Deficits.

[xbit Posted Jul 8th 2010 4:12AM]

California has enough electricity spare for this scheme?

[McKirf Posted Jul 9th 2010 12:33AM]

@xbit

That's funny, Mel looks almost the same angry self today!

[Montpelerin Posted Jul 8th 2010 4:23AM]

They can have 1600 new chargers...but they're gonna blow him first!

[weerdoe Posted Jul 8th 2010 4:25AM]

All the hummers will feel so left out

[FNi Posted Jul 8th 2010 4:44AM]

Oh Mel, I was once such a fan - Lethal Weapon 1 + 2 were my childhood favourites, Apocalypto was a masterpiece, Payback was a great pulpy noir.

I even naively defended your first 'outburst'.

Why'd you have to go and do me a second time?

[cdf74dc9 Posted Jul 8th 2010 4:48AM]

So now we don't need to steal tanker anymore. Oh those were the day.

[Kurian Posted Jul 8th 2010 5:30AM]

Time to illegally electrify my house.

[ckeledjian Posted Jul 8th 2010 6:07AM]

Back in the day when Mel Gibson was cool and not a drunken, racist, anti-semite, misogynist, wife-beating jerk.

[Winters75 Posted Jul 8th 2010 6:37AM]

@ckeledjian
Leeeeave Mel Gibson alone! Pleeeease.. buuuuaaaa...How dare you make fun of him? After all he has been through..he is only human..

[Kid Red Posted Jul 8th 2010 8:59AM]

@Winters75 Yea, his hand must hurt from punching his baby momma in the face 3 times while she's holding the child. His throat must be trashed after screaming profanities at full voice in her face. Poor guy...

[chris2 Posted Jul 8th 2010 7:52AM]

so they'll need to buy even more electricity from that evil Arizona they want to boycott? nice.

[Kid Red Posted Jul 8th 2010 8:58AM]

I want to see Mad Max with nothing but EVs and Hybrids. So Mel would have a badass Prius and the murderer clan would all be driving Leafs.