Guess who’s ready for the Electric Car!
Posted by Will Shaver on 05 Jun 2009 at 07:51 pm | Tagged as: Life
So there’s this really progressive city in North America, who’s leaders have realized that electric cars are just round the corner. So they’ve installed plugs in the parking lots of the airport, hotel, and office.
Plugs in the blue boxes at the airport.
Plugs at the very budget Comfort Inn.
Plugs at the office where I was working.
So where might this mystical city be that has ALREADY installed plugs everywhere? Regina, SK. (And Yorkton SK)
The plugs are actually for block heaters as it frequently gets to 10 (F) below during the winter months here. But regardless of original purpose you’re looking at a great test-market for electric vehicles. (Although you’d want a block heater on the battery pack, which isn’t unheard of either.)
Those two cities have another feature that is a big plus for electric vehicles – flat roads!
“The hill,” though pretty to look at, and one of the things that makes San Francisco so picturesque, is perhaps the electric vehicle’s biggest enemy – as I think you are well aware. :o)