Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Electric cars: in San Francisco charging free

California has always been at the forefront of the low-emission mobility. A brief in San Francisco will be free to recharge their vehicles in garages and local international airport. A statement was Mayor Ed Lee, who pointed out that this facility will be valid until the end of 2013. For the 90 columns will now be engineered to be a form of additional charge compared to a rest home with an average of 3 hours, enough to recharge your energy for 80% of the "tank".

Within a month they will move from words to deeds as you will start to prepare the columns "with the aim of reducing the anxiety of autonomy that could affect large-scale owners of electric cars once they take hold in a widespread ". With current technology, most of the media in circulation today can travel without recharging for 150-160 km.

The Lee administration course aims to reduce air pollution through the cars with zero emissions. The current measure of the spread of free charging points is supported by an appropriation federal, state and local levels for a total of $ 300,000, in addition to the benefits of recent months which included the installation of 2,750 new columns, including thirty those that allow the "full" in about half an hour.

The city of San Francisco points to a level of CO2 emissions in 2012 that is 20% lower than that recorded in 1990.

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