"NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration's goal of putting 1 million hybrid and electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015 is "reasonable" if the government builds hydrogen fueling and electric-charging stations nationwide, a Nissan Motor Co. executive said.
"Carmakers can't go and put hydrogen fueling and charging stations throughout the U.S., but the government can," Andy Palmer, a senior vice president at Nissan said in an interview at a conference in New York Wednesday.
There are 722 electric car charging stations in the U.S., with 60 percent of those in California, according to the Energy Department. There are 58 hydrogen fueling stations in the nation, again with the most in California than any other state. U.S. sales of hybrid and electric vehicles could reach 1.6 million by the end of the decade, or 9 percent of all cars, Albert Cheung, a Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst said in a presentation at the conference."
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110406/OEM05/304069792/1186#ixzz1J4OyNc1MCalifornia has already contracted ClipperCreek to equip all 440 existing charging stations with the SAE-J1772 receptacle (compatible with Leaf and Volt) over the next year:
California Energy Commission Selects EV Connect, ClipperCreek to Upgrade Existing EV Charging Infrastructure"As implementation partner for the $1.9 million project, EV Connect will upgrade legacy chargers intalled in the 1990’s throughout California, providing adaptations to accommodate existing electric vehicles, while updating charger stations to the new SAE-J1772 standard of new car models.
“By upgrading existing electric vehicle charger stations across the state, California continues its leadership in promoting alternative fuel and plug-in vehicle technology,” said Energy Commissioner Anthony Eggert. “This investment will help prepare California for a clean, energy efficient future and advance the state's transportation infrastructure.”
In anticipation of new car models entering the market from companies such as Nissan, Coda Automotive, General Motors, Ford and Fisker Automotive, among others, work is slated to start in the fall of 2010 and finish by winter of 2011."
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