G > As opposed to a free market, good business model, etc.?
G > Good point about installation costs. G > The wiring of such outlets for that many G > cars and for that level of power usage G > would not be trivial.
Joseph KK > Perhaps at park and ride lots for electric light rail stations?
How low would the cost of such cars have to be before you would feel safe leaving yours at a "park and ride" lot?
Nobody's mentioned the theft/security issues with these things. Are we going to have battery theft? Power theft?
Would these things fit into the current system by which most cars are sold with massive FINANCING?
Whenever I see some fancy shiny hunk of metal rolling down the streets I am amused at how many people take pride in WHAT THE BANK OWNS!
Why bitch and whine about gas prices when most of the cost of operating a car in the USA involves 200% profit for the bank that finances it?
The cost of a car is only 1/3 or less of what most people pay for the car, the other 2/3 or more is FINANCING COSTS!
It's like people buying houses with a mortgage.
Some poor so and so sweats and toils to build the house and it sells for $100K. But the buyer pays $300K to buy it. The bank doesn't sweat, toil or labor but makes $200K for shuffling paper!
When something like a car costs 300% of what the hardware price tag says, because the bank gets 200+% of what the price tag says, isn't it a bit silly to obsess about the gasoline price?
Is it really "green" to get 60 miles per gallon if it takes a $150K investment in a Mercedes or BMW?
Is worrying about material costs of cars really the thing to obsess about when the BANKS add 200% onto the real cost to a purchaser?