electric car infrastructure Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 27 May 2010 09:16:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Holland to Have Europe's First Commercial EV Charging Station in Leeuwarden (Preparing for LEAF?) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/holland-ev-charging-station-20100527/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/holland-ev-charging-station-20100527/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 09:16:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7756 Holland has been targeted as the first European country that will sell Nissan's Leaf, the first mass-produced electric car with an affordable price (under $30,000). It is logical, then, that Holland is also the first European country to adopt fast-charging EV stations.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/holland-ev-charging-station-20100527/feed/ 1 7756 IBM Helping Denmark Develop Country-Wide Electric Car Network https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ibm-helping-denmark-develop-country-wide-electric-car-network-20090225/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ibm-helping-denmark-develop-country-wide-electric-car-network-20090225/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:43:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2720 I was saying the other year that Denmark is powered mostly by its wind farms, and that the energy generated by these wind farms is in excess. They want to build an electric car network that would operate across the country and that would use the excess energy and transport it to propel people from here to there, cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion.

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