Where will you plug it in? Posted on July 23rd
As Ted Lowe envisions his driving future, he’ll pull into a parking space and, instead of using a coin-operated meter, he will plug into an electrical outlet to charge his battery-powered vehicle.
“I can see it coming. The writing is on the wall,” said Lowe of Wheaton, an electric vehicle aficionado who drives a Chevy pickup converted to run on batteries.
General Motors Corp. can see the future, too, and so can utilities. They have begun to think seriously about the electric car and whether people will become as obsessed with finding outlets as they are with finding low pump prices today.
GM, which intends to be among the first to offer an electric car in 2010, when the Chevrolet Volt is due, on Tuesday announced a partnership with the Electric Power Research Institute and more than 30 electric utilities across the country to consider the needs of drivers.
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