Best Buy Getting Electric Car Charging Stations

[cp8427]

Dumb idea. Just leave it to gas store owners to install a blink charging station.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]is it free? How much would it cost?[/citation]
So, after hearing them to be charging for PS3 update, you expect this to be free? I don't.

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]Will they try to sell you a 250$ 5 ft HDMI 1.4 cable to plug your car?[/citation]

Worse yet, a Monster Platium Premium Super Duper Awesome Charging Cable for $500.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]is it free? How much would it cost?[/citation]
Do you get a monthly electric bill? I don't see the difference. So it most likely would cost standard electricity rates, plus whatever is factored in with the cost of the service.

 

[gorillateets]

They'd have to use a cable wrapped in a protective flexible tough metal to avoid tampering with and use a mechanism that prevents the plug from being destroyed when some idiot drives off with the car still plugged in. The idea sounds nice, but in real world scenarios I'm sure people will charge at home and save themselves the trouble. These charging stations will have to cost a small fortune mostly because of how long your car will have to sit there charging and the next guy is waiting on you to be done. I can't imagine this working unless at least half of the parking lot had these stations, not just two or three.

 

[captainnemojr]

The catch is you have to have a Geek Squad member plug in your car for you.

 

[captainnemojr]

[citation][nom]mr_tuel[/nom]...and how is the earth's core loosing mass? Fossil fuels are only located within the crust, hundreds (if not thousands) of miles from the core. Plate tectonics cause the crust to become the mantle, and the mantle to become crust. Its cyclical. If I am not mistaken,. The crust itself just stays there mostly, and will continue to exist in its state for another few billion years.I won't argue the ecological side of this, but we will eventually run out of fossil fuels. As long as we can produce electricity with dams, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, fusion, etc, it is the way to go.[/citation]

Also, it's the moon that keeps the earth from wobbling much at all. I just watched that on the Science Channel. We will wobble more as the moon moves further away, but we're good to go for another billion years or so.

I'd love to see fusion power.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]9d3tsi[/nom]Just because you plug it in to a wall, doesn't mean its "clean energy". Isn't coal and other fossil fuels still used to produce electricity?[/quote]
First of all, getting power into a battery from the electrical grid is still more efficient than having an on-board Internal Combustion Engine. Secondly, the precise mix of fossil fuels to alternatives in the grid depends on where you are. (Link for those of us in the US) Me, I get significantly more nuke-born power than the national average, so the overall NOx and CO2 emissions are lower for electrical power here than the national average anyway.

 

[jalek]

Dams are going the way of nuclear plants in the US, they kill fish you know. Wind turbines kill birds. Wave turbines kill lots of marine life. Solar kills things that get too close to the concentrator.

Soon we'll be trying to find ways of heating our caves without using fire.

 

[Supertrek32]

[citation][nom]KingArcher[/nom]How about the amount of time it takes to recharge?You're not going to window-shop/hang-out until its charged are you?[/citation]
The idea is to have them all over. In the ideal world, there would be one at almost every place you drive to. If you drive for 30 minutes to reach the store (best buy, in this case - they're just one of the first adopters), the time you spend in the store should be plenty. The idea isn't to charge your car from 0, it's to maintain your charge from stop to stop.

 

[Supertrek32]

[citation][nom]9d3tsi[/nom]Just because you plug it in to a wall, doesn't mean its "clean energy". Isn't coal and other fossil fuels still used to produce electricity? So where's the win? Not to mention.... What does this do to eveyone's electric bill?[/citation][citation][nom]rubix_1011[/nom]I have to completely agree with 9d3tsi...I was going to say exactly the same thing. Just because its an 'electric car' the electricity still comes from BURNING TONS OF FOSSIL FUELS TO MAKE ENERGY. It's a displacement of energy, and not any more 'green' than a gas or diesel car...likely less.[/citation]

First and foremost, coal is much more abundant and much easier to gather There's also an ample supply of coal in the US, as opposed to oil which we have little of. So coal will always be cheaper.

Second, electric cars release less CO2 per mile than gasoline powered cars. In a comparison of the Toyota RAV4 and it's all-electric brother, the RAV4 EV, the EV puts out around 60% of the CO2 of the gas-powered car. It's important to remember that coal isn't the only fuel used at power plants. (source:http://forums.treehugger.com/viewtopic.php?t=1034)

Third, and most importantly, electric cars will only get better with time, where as gas cars are going downhill. Electric cars are getting more and more efficient by leaps and bounds while gas cars progress slowly. That means fewer and fewer emissions. Power generation is also improving, and we'll always be able to make electricity through nuclear, solar, hydro, and wind generation. We won't have gas around for much longer.

 

[f-14]

yes i wonder if it will be a meter type deal, and where are they going to park as it will have to be some place in view of cameras and security staff, will it displace the handicapped parking? what happens if it's raining while your plugged in and you go to disconnect/connect it? i know this is southwestern usa but i am really wondering how snow and sleet will play in that scenario also. i'm just going to assume it's like current tech is and you still get shocked even with a gfi, but will the amps/voltage be so high even that fraction of a milisecond would be enought o kill some one. hope they protect the charging stations like they do gas pumps to keep drunks and retards from running them over.

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]WTF? You must be an American...[/citation]
lmfao too funny. i find it funny how a planet that continually gets warm then goes into an ice age over and over and over as more proof that even an american whack job is smarter to not trust a few thousand current sceintist who think they have figured out the universe let alone mother nature in the last 50 years. they can't even tell us how hot it got before triggering the last few ice ages let alone what caused them, dinosaurs were warm blooded and lived all over every continent including antartica, i think that is a clue sceintist have been expriementing with the mary jane way too much which i might add contributes to global warming, since a butterfly flapping it's wings in china causes hurricane katrina here in the united states. oh please vulcanologist acknowledge 1 volcanic eruption does more damage then human being have done in their entire existance. think of what the super volcano that makes up a big part of yosemite national park has done, you need to be in outerspace to even see it, it's so huge.

 

[dimar]

[citation][nom]xl3tiger[/nom]if best buy use solar panels to feed thier electrical station it will be awesome. the initiatiave is good.[/citation]

That's actually is an awesome idea. Every car or whatever charging station should have lots of wind and solar energy sources 🙂

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]KingArcher[/nom]How about the amount of time it takes to recharge?You're not going to window-shop/hang-out until its charged are you?[/citation]

Nissan Leaf will take about 30min to fully charge on one of those charging stations. it's a home charging station on steroids from what i have read