Arizona State University now has six Level 2 Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its Tempe campus.
The charging stations are located at Packard Drive South, the Fulton Center and the Tyler Street Parking Structure. Each Blink charging station can charge one EV at a time.
Students, faculty and staff will have free access to charging stations with Blink access cards, which PTS will issue at the Tempe campus University Towers office. Visiting electric vehicle owners who are member of the Blink system also will be able to access the charging stations on the ASU Tempe campus. Thanks to a federal grant, electric vehicle owners will be able to charge their vehicles without paying for the cost of electricity.
ECOtality manages The EV Project, which will provide infrastructure to support the deployment of 8,300 EVs. It oversees EV charging installations as part of the 14,000 commercial and residential charging stations that will be in 18 major cities and metropolitan areas and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. For more information about The EV Project, please visit: www.theevproject.com.
claraG posted at 2:53 am on Tue, Sep 4, 2012.
You're right! Well apparently the EV Project provides no-cost Blink charging stations to competent business and EV owners. Recently, ECOtality, the firm that handles the project, publicized that it will be increasing the effort into Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia. Indeed, EV Project are aiming to provide free chargers for urban EV drivers.
jsmith14 posted at 5:22 am on Sat, Jul 21, 2012.
So if electric cars are so great for the environment, why haven't they caught on yet? There are lots of political reasons for this, and a few technical ones on http://www.automd.com/repaircost/.
Loveday Onyemachi Chigbu posted at 7:32 pm on Tue, Mar 27, 2012.
I need admission to either Masters Public Administration Or MBA
I have Bachelors in Public Administration and GPA 3.00
tularockstar posted at 1:28 pm on Thu, Mar 22, 2012.
This so-called, grant, sounds to me like it's a part of the stimulus spending. Which, again, means the taxpayers are paying for these stations. There is no such thing as free electricity, and ASU sure heck not going pay for this out of the goodness of its heart...far from it!
soricobob posted at 5:22 am on Thu, Mar 22, 2012.
I like electric cars, and I think there should be charging stations all over the place, but why is the Federal Government footing the bill instead of SRP?