Comments on: Google’s GFleet To Provide Testing Ground for Electric Cars http://gigaom.com/2010/11/21/googles-gfleet-to-provide-testing-ground-for-electric-cars/ Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robot B9 http://gigaom.com/2010/11/21/googles-gfleet-to-provide-testing-ground-for-electric-cars/#comment-524592 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:21:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=262414#comment-524592 What are your thoughts about how the mainstream consumer will handle the “plugging in” activity required by an electric car?

Certainly the early adopters have no problems. I am trying to compare how life with an electric car will be different from life with the present combustion engine cars.

Ex:

Combustion engine car owner may have to visit a gas station once a week. Other then that all they do is get in and drive.

Electric car owners, at least with the present generation battery technology, will want to plug in at the least every night. This means when they arrive home they will plug in and every morning, when they leave for work, they will unplug. If they forget they will either have to deal with driving with a low charge (forgot to plug in) or drive away from their charging station and pull out the plug (forgot to unplug).

My concern is that unless life with an electric car is equal or easier then life with a combustion engine car we will soon see part 2 of “who killed the electric car”!

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