Ecotality

A company named Ecotality was given $100 million to set up recharging stations for electric cars in different metropolitan areas. This was part of the Presidents pledge to have 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. The project like many associated with electric cars was a flop. The reason given for failure was the unexpected low demand for electric cars. While it is true that the number of electric cars sold was far less than predicted, this project would have been in trouble even if the projected sales had been met. I say this because the equipment installed would take several hours to charge up a car. Can you imagine the American public waiting around for hours to get their car charged? If you took a trip you would drive for a couple of hours and then charge for a couple and so on. I don’t think so!