atlaw4u
09-05-2010, 05:09 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg Never mind that the cars aren’t there yet. - If you build it, they will come. (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/03/elk-horn-iowa-an-oasis-for-electric-cars/)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/sign-indicating-public-electric-vehicle-charging-station_100319870_s.jpgDavid Zax - WSJ (http://blogs.wsj.com) - September 03, 2010
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about the town of Elk Horn, Iowa: it has America’s highest concentration of electric vehicle charging stations.
“Highest concentration” awards are relatively easy to come by when your population is 650. (Elk Horn also has the highest concentration of Danish immigrants; its residents say its interest in alternative energy derives from the homeland.) The town has four electric charging stations, one at a solar-powered service station, one in a parking lot, one at the hotel, and one by the Danish windmill, the town’s greatest tourist attraction.
The charging stations came to Elk Horn last November thanks to Mike Howard, a 57-year-old local entrepreneur who owns two businesses that test and calibrate alternative energy devices. You might say that he is so far ahead of the curve that, looking back, the curve can’t even be seen. Elk Horn itself only has four purely electric vehicles, and those all belong to Howard’s own businesses. “We’re our own best customers,” admits Trevor Schroeter, a project manager at World Cal, one of Howard’s companies. The chargers cost about $7,000 apiece, but a charge runs no more than $3... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/03/elk-horn-iowa-an-oasis-for-electric-cars/
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/sign-indicating-public-electric-vehicle-charging-station_100319870_s.jpgDavid Zax - WSJ (http://blogs.wsj.com) - September 03, 2010
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about the town of Elk Horn, Iowa: it has America’s highest concentration of electric vehicle charging stations.
“Highest concentration” awards are relatively easy to come by when your population is 650. (Elk Horn also has the highest concentration of Danish immigrants; its residents say its interest in alternative energy derives from the homeland.) The town has four electric charging stations, one at a solar-powered service station, one in a parking lot, one at the hotel, and one by the Danish windmill, the town’s greatest tourist attraction.
The charging stations came to Elk Horn last November thanks to Mike Howard, a 57-year-old local entrepreneur who owns two businesses that test and calibrate alternative energy devices. You might say that he is so far ahead of the curve that, looking back, the curve can’t even be seen. Elk Horn itself only has four purely electric vehicles, and those all belong to Howard’s own businesses. “We’re our own best customers,” admits Trevor Schroeter, a project manager at World Cal, one of Howard’s companies. The chargers cost about $7,000 apiece, but a charge runs no more than $3... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/03/elk-horn-iowa-an-oasis-for-electric-cars/