Electric charging grid
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With the government enabling residents to buy vehicles that don't pollute and don't depend on oil, they are hoping to break the chicken-or-egg conundrum that plagues adoption of the electric vehicle technology-- that there currently aren't enough electric vehicles on the road to make building the charging station network economically viable, and that without a network of charging stations available, it isn't practical to drive an electric vehicle further than a short trip around town.
July 29, 2010 7:33 PM PDT
Photo by: James Martin/CNET
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