Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Electric Cars Take Over D.C. Streets

OK. That is a bit of an exaggeration. But for one day at least, the majority of vehicles circling the soon-to-be CityCenterDC site downtown were not pollution-spewing SUVs but clean, green electric vehicles. That's because the Electric Drive Transportation Association invited the public to test drive different EVs and check out the latest charging station technology.

The biggest lines were for the Chevy Volts, so I instead took a spin in the Ford Transit Connect Electric Cargo Van. This was the first EV I've ever driven and let me just say "wow!" To all the naysayers, just drive one and you will be converted. EVs are so quiet you can hear a pin drop. But they also have a hell of a lot of kick to them when you put the pedal to the metal (you can't call it a "gas" pedal anymore. Electric pedal?).

When the EVs take over the internal combustion engine vehicles to rule the road they will of course need as many charging stations as there are currently gas stations. Well, bring in companies such as Blink, General Electric and AeroVironment -- all whom were displaying their charging stations.

Here are pictures from the event. Feast your eyes on our electric-powered future!














1 comment:

  1. Day by day the number of vehicles are increasing as the number of people are also increasing.Every car runs with fuels which is a non renewable resource and which is depleting very soon so we need to save them.There comes the concept of electric vehicle and this would happen some day that only electric vehicle would be running on the streets except diesel/petrol vehicle.

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