Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by mtgx on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:13PM (#5253414)

Wouldn't it be great if governments everywhere created solar-based chargers like those of Tesla, with some back-up to electricity for night charging or for when all the power is used at a charger for the day, and then the whole population could buy electric cars much faster?

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Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by jkaljundi on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:17PM (#5253439)

Not in Estonia. We don't have any sun, except for few days in the summer. Wish we could produce electricity from cold, rain and darkness.

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Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by jk4930 on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:41PM (#5260658)

For "rain" see [1] using the mechanical energy of falling rain drops.

For "cold" see [2] the idea of using the potential energy of snow on mountains (or hills). Maybe create artificial avalanches.

For "darkness", no idea. :)

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[1] http://phys.org/news120216714.html

[2] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99635.htm

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Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by jkaljundi on Friday February 22, 2013 @03:33AM (#5263327)

Crap, we don't have mountains either :D The highest point is 318 meters ASL.

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Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by martinhenk on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @07:04PM (#5254324)

LOL! It is actually a great idea! If anyone in the world should come up with a system like that it will definitely be an Estonian for sure.

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Re:Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric v... by anonymousDan on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:13PM (#5260006)

We'd buy it from you here in Ireland :)

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