ECOtality Expands EV-Charging Prowess Into Australia
Arizona-based car-charging start-up, ECOtality, has announced its expansion into Australia with its wholly-owned subsidiary, ECOtality Australia.
Arizona-based car-charging start-up, ECOtality, has announced its expansion into Australia with its wholly-owned subsidiary, ECOtality Australia.
With what appears to be a perfect storm building on the horizon for electric vehicles (EVs), some utilities are way ahead of others when it comes to readying the grid--and their customers--for a large-scale deployment of the paradigm-changing electric car.
Thanks to a $100 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to embark on the project, the EV Project will be the first combination vehicle/charge-network roll-out in North America.
2009 was the year of the electric car even though the numbers of actual cars sold or projected to be sold this year do not appear to support this conclusion.