France to spend $2.2 Billion In A Charging Network For EV’s |
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The ever-rising demand for finding an alternative to the oil-based industry has brought the potential of the electricity into more light and many world governments seem to appeal to this solution. As one of the first reactions, the has recently announced the intentions to spend $2.2 billion (~€1.5 billion) on building a charging network for electric vehicles to cover the whole country, in efforts to rise the interest for more environmental and clean means of transportation.
Other plans include making the installation of charging sockets mandatory in office parking lots by 2015, and by 2012, new apartment blocks will be forced to build charging stations in their parking lots.
If you want to build a nation-wide charging network, you need electric cars, in the first place, right ? Well, they calculated that by 2015, about the time the project will be ready, there will be about 100,000 driving on the French streets. So as a start, the car manufacturer will build a €625 million battery construction facility in Flins, near Paris. The will account for about 20% of the costs, meaning €125 million.
With France making the first steps towards the ““, I am pretty positive that other nations will soon follow.
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