Bay Area moves towards electric cars

November 21st, 2008 Alex

The Bay Area plans on spending $1 billion to build the nation’s first electric vehicle network that includes service stations to recharge batteries and garages to swap batteries. The electric vehicle charging stations are provided by Palo Alto based company, Better Place and should be rolled out all over the Bay Area by 2012. The electric outlets will start appearing on public buildings next year in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.

This will be a good advancement for the Bay Area to take the lead in promoting greener cars. By making it easier to operate and charge electric cars, it will make people more likely to purchase them in the Bay Area. As more car companies release new models of electric cars, it will be exciting to see where the auto industry will go in the next five years. Looking at how the economy and recession is hitting the American automakers,  it will also be interesting to see whether GM, Ford, and Chrysler will still be around. Hopefully the economy will be better by 2010, which is when there should be a lot of new Hybrid and electric car models coming out. 

via SFGate

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