Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers 161
separsons writes "Telekom Austria, a telecommunications company, aims to convert obsolete public phone booths into electric vehicle recharging stations. The company unveiled its first station yesterday in Vienna and hopes to create 29 more stations by the end of the year. The stations may not be super popular now, but they should be soon; Austria's motor vehicle association says the country will likely have 405,000 electric vehicles on the road by the year 2020."
why, at that rate... (Score:5, Funny)
Why, at that rate, they'll be able to simultaneously recharge 0.06% of the electric cars in the country!
And with the usual 30 milliamp analog phone line current, it will only take about a dozen years to recharge each car.
Re:One question (Score:2, Funny)
A toll booth for the PSTN.
Re:One question (Score:5, Funny)
> What's a phone booth?
It's like a Police Box, but without the time travel...
Whoa! Dude! That's totally bogus.
Re:Location Location Location (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why, at that rate... (Score:3, Funny)
....And with the usual 30 milliamp analog phone line current, it will only take about a dozen years to recharge each car.
Yeah, but think of all the roll over minutes!
Re:One question (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, Yo Mama jokes with $variables just don't work.
Re:Department of Redundancy Department (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Terrible idea. (Score:5, Funny)
Only if Austria has phone booths in the Zoo enclosures
How else would the Kangaroos get news from home?
Re:Where does the energy for thelectricity come fr (Score:2, Funny)
Does She Wait With You? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Something is wrong here... (Score:4, Funny)
I loved the part where the submitter felt the need to clarify that Telekom Austria is a telecommunications company. Now if only he could tell us which country it's in...
Re:Range of electric vehicles? (Score:3, Funny)
No, but you missed an important part of the story, I'll let you find the mistake yourself.
Hint: You're about one half of a large rotating thing wrong.
Re:Where does the energy for thelectricity come fr (Score:2, Funny)
Call Centres, staffed by the unemployed, criminals and retired folk will be employed to call the phone boxes constantly to maintain a 50-75 volt DC ringing signal down the line.