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posted by martyb on Sunday November 06 2016, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the fewer-excuses-to-burn-dead-dinosaurs dept.

Wisconsin Public Radio reports

It's easy to forget how vast and complex the existing infrastructure for gas vehicles is. Not having that convenience is a problem the sellers and proponents of electric vehicles [have] been working to change.

Now, the Obama administration says it will significantly expand the nation's infrastructure for electric vehicles. The U.S. Department of Transportation is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors. Those vehicle routes dotted with charging stations are intended to cover 25,000 miles of highway in 35 states.

[...] The idea is to add thousands of electric charging stations around the country. In addition, states and local governments signed up to increase electric vehicles in their fleets.

[...] This all comes as consumers are turning away from sedans and moving toward SUVs and pickups. David Shepardson of Reuters looks at the problem of slow electric adoption by consumers.

[...] In August 2008, Obama set a goal of getting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015. Only about 520,000 electric cars have been sold in the United States since 2008, out of about 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:14AM (#422984)

    The only thing Obama ever changed was the skin color of the president, and that change didn't even stick, because it's changing back next week.

    Good riddance to No Change Barry.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:22AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:22AM (#422990) Homepage

    You mean No-change Soetoro.

    He's going to subvert the democratic process using all means necessary, which means launching terrorist attacks on American soil using ISIS and any other destructive means contrived by his buddies in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and planted within American intelligence, many of whom within the latter are complicit.

    Good luck at the polls, fellow Americans, Democracy depends on your very lives.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06 2016, @02:30AM (#422993)

      You mean No-change Soetoro, the homoniggerspawn of Barry Obummer senior and Stanley Dunham?