Don't really see why this is a problem.

For the Oscar Night Party, carpooled with some friends in their Chevy Volt over to Redmond. Charged up while at the party.

Never used the gas engine, except to heat the car. Total mpg around 60.

I don't know about being "the solution" but the role of the state is a truth worth repeating again, and again, ..

Each time I see this charging station I wonder how much energy they're using to run the ridiculous and unnecessarily large screen continuously.

Oh God. This is the absolute worst possible example you could have used to make your point, Charles. Battery swapping is a pointless, unneeded technology that is extremely expensive to enact, requires costly engineering that no one wants, and that, in an age of improving battery efficiency and supercharging, is already technically obsolete. In 20 years these swapping stations will be albatrosses, signs of a bad government bet. That Agassi, a slick, superficial salesman who has since been ousted from Better Place, managed to use his family connections and charisma to keep this con job running is a testament to the wooly-headed thinking that can happen when non-expert politicians drive technical policy. They are pulling out of the US and Australia because it's dawned on even these gullible lawmakers that this was a bad idea sold well, not a new disruptive technology. Agassi might have well ended his pitch with "Monorail!!!". You just made the best possible case against what you were saying, which is sad since I think you are right in many other much more solid cases. Do you homework next time and talk to people who actually know about the challenge of implementing the widespread use of electric cars. They were on to Better Place years ago.

Chuckie, but you dipshits hate cars. Get your propaganda straight, would you?

@4, i should have made my position clear: at the start of any new technology there are lots of ideas, some are better than others. but at the moment, we only have the market trying to sort that out and not the state. also, there are often good unexpected consequences that arise from bad projects. my argument still holds, implementation of the infrastructure is the business of the state.

Again: Chuckie, but you dipshits hate cars. Get your propaganda straight, will you? Oh, and try answering the fucking questions. Oh, and don't get cute with the e.e. cummings stuff. Use the punctuation you were taught in fifth grade.