Elektrobay EV Charging Stations Are Up in London

For £100 a year, EV drivers can charge up at any of the nine new charging stations going up in a handful of London boroughs, adding to the growing number of recharge points in the city. Called Elektrobays (the "k" makes it edgy, see), the stations went live yesterday, and EV users can now register to use them. So, as the availability of all-electric car choices increases in the next two years, so to will the ability to charge them, and Londoners will be off and running with quiet, tiny cars zooming through the streets.

As we’ve talked about pretty often on EcoGeek, EV charging infrastructures are rapidly growing in big cities around the world, including here in the US, underscoring the idea that EVs are the future of cars. Now the issue will be getting the electricity provided to come from all renewable resources – like solar panels placed on charging poles – as well as putting smart grids in place. Though existing grids can typically handle folks plugging in their EVs, smart grids will be increasingly necessary as consumer purchases of EVs tick upwards along with electricity needs for charging. Luckily, car makers and utility companies already know this. So, auto makers, we're ready when you are!

Via Smart Planet; photo via f-r-a-n-k

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check out these new awsome electric vehi
written by evlife, August 14, 2008

Check out these awesome electric cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_laBPi9wbA

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written by EV, August 14, 2008

Looks great. They've even figured out how to prevent someone from using another's power session in the system. Next up is getting a lockable charging cap over the plug on the car.

Prius driver
written by mark, September 14, 2008

I own a 2004 Prius now with 66K miles on it.

I'll try my damnedest to hold onto this car until there is a reasonable plug in to replace it. I prefer the Prius plug in, but I hear the Insight might be back. And then there is the Volt.

Whoever is first gets my business.

The Ballasts are Coming, The Ballasts ar
written by Uncle B, May 13, 2009

Worried about wind turbines producing all night for no cause? Well now we can use that juice to charge our cars! Wind blowing extra hard tonight, charge your batteries faster! Reactor running over power in the night? Charge it! Solar over-powering grid during the day? Charge it! Car batteries will take up the slack in the current grid system, wind and solar power, will be added, and we will still need more! Time to shut off the cooling towers and use that excess heat to generate more Sterling engined power! Soon, even tidal power will make sense, and wave contributions will be appreciated. Cleaner fission fires may be possible, but simply not safe for humanity, not until the farmers at Chernobyl return to their fields, so fusion is our next great hope! Careful conservation of energy is going to get very big, as energy sources are tapped, so super-insulation, and high efficiency motors will gain ground, as will smaller, survival shelter styled homes. Aquaculture, chicken raising, veggie gardening, composting, and bio-gassing of humanure will phase in, and population controls will be required. The smaller bodied rice and veggie burning oriental sized folk will be best equipped for survival in the new world evolving, and the large bodied, heavy worker type human will slowly disappear into history. As energy sources become the limiting factor for society, smaller lighter and low consuming folk will survive, if they are bright and fast! The day of the great powerful oaf is over! London's little two seater electrics a harbinger of what is to come to the rest of the world, and soon.

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