crew: Thanks Jean-Charles, for the direction. It looks like the most appealing recharge stations will be the 240v systems. Easy to install, use, and generate revenue if so desired.
My greatest concern is daytime use vs. off peak use. Daytime use requires an intense effort to revamp power generating stations to meet peak demand.Or we’ll just recharge at home and not worry about it too much.
Either way EV’s and EREV’s (for the adventurous high mileage driver) will have viable options for our societies to move forward.
In the US, EV’s don’t make sense. We have a large country and enjoy our driving freedom.Let’s keep it real.  

Thanks Crew,

As you say our culture, environment (Only 5% of Holland drivers have a private garage, more than 90% always park the car in the street, about 5% use a shared garage.), will play a significant role in the adoption of different kinds of EVs, so different solutions may apply in different contexts.

And I agree with you that an EREV like the Volt or the Ampera is more appealing for individualists like – I think – both of us and many other ones.

BR

JC NPNS

In the US, EV’s don’t make sense. We have a large country and enjoy our driving freedom.

Let’s keep it real.

crew: Can you show me how a cost effective infrastructure will be created with current technology? Please use raw data.
How will tax revenue and social benevolence/government subsidies be collected and allocated? An electric infrastructure demands that a dramatic shift in tax revenue and/or business benefit expense replace an oil transportation economy.
No small feat.Please be careful in making projections and avoid making predictions.  

Hi Crew, look at the example of Holland, where a coalition of electricity distributors joined to supply 10,000 charging ports free of charge for their users, in the hope to promote the demand for EVs. This is not a prediction this is a fact.

A lot has to be done, agreed, but a business model similar to the one proposed by betterplace integrating energy distribution, telecommunications, battery leasing and pay as you go with a “nude” affordable car can generate revenues for all its users (State, electricity distributor, charging port owner, car manufacturer, etc.), as Shai Agassi says, it is just a matter of a good organization of already existing technologies. And with the good incentives, the market will follow.

BR,

JC NPNS

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No small feat.

Please be careful in making projections and avoid making predictions.

crew: If the average driver for the Ampera travels less than he would in America then either the Ampera is needlessly expensive for using a 16 kw battery or driving will increase with a lower cost per km.
The LEAF makes sense only for limited travel in Europe just as it does in the US. A cost effective electric charging/exchanging (vs non-taxed petroleum) infrastructure does not exist, nor can one be projected without extensive government subsidies. Off peak home charging is hard to beat.
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Thanks Crew, I agree and time will tell, except that it should be easy to build a cost effective infrastructure. If every business and public organization installs say 2 public charging ports, you get it.

BR

JC NPNS