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."
Re:One question (Score:5, Informative)
> What's a phone booth?
It's like a Police Box, but without the time travel...
Re:Location Location Location (Score:3, Informative)
This could work, so long as they surround the car parks with a high kangaroo fence...
Austria not Australia.
Though for all I know they have a few Kangaroos in Austria too.
Re:About emissions displacement (Score:3, Informative)
The internal combustion engines that currently exist are so much cleaner and more efficient than the powerplants that that currently exist that electric vehicles are an environmental nightmare.
You are completely and totally wrong. Internal combustion engines used in automobiles top out around 25% efficiency. Electric motors used in cars top out around 95% efficient, and they're even over 90% efficient when acting as a generator (during regenerative braking.)
We can talk again in 30 years, m'kay?
In thirty years, you might be right; we might be driving EVs.