Spark plug Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:29:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Charge Your EV at Phone Booths with SPARK Plugs https://www.greenoptimistic.com/charge-electric-car-phone-booth-spark/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/charge-electric-car-phone-booth-spark/#respond Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:29:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=59284 Spark Plugs could be a simple solution to your ‘range anxiety’. Spark Ventures has converted some selected phone booths near Auckland into EV charging stations and is allowing drivers to top-up their car battery. Spark Ventures CEO, Rod Snodgrass, says,“Using our lovely phone boxes as top-up charging stations is an incredibly innovative and modest idea, and […]

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