Austin Is Awesome, Plans $50-Per-Year Electric Car Charging
How would you like to pay $50per yearto drive your car around? Instead of, say, a thousand dollars a year for gasoline (soon to be $2,000 a year)? The Austin City Council is considering a fifty-buck annual subscription to electric-car charging stations all over town. That's four dollars a month!
The Austin Business Journal reports:
Austin City Council members this week will consider charging Austin electric car drivers $50 a year to boot up their batteries from any Austin Energy plug-in.
The proposed rate would apply to Austin Energy's "Plug-in Everywhere" program — a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles. The city would offer a $25 six-month subscription for unlimited service, including sales tax. Without the subscription, it would cost about $2 per hour of charging.
Austin Energy is installing more than 100 public charging stations throughout the city by the end of this summer. The Coulomb Technologies Inc. stations are being paid for in part through federal stimulus grants. Each pump costs about $700 to install.
[ Austin Business Journal via Cryptogon ]
Completely correct. And both have large deficits.
I had a new meter put in in New York City and a new upgraded fuse box about 8 years ago and it cost me $1100 dollars. Make a few calls. Nissan will put in a 220 for you as a perk. If you don't have an outlet in the garage how the hell can the band practice, Dad?