Electric car owners will soon benefit from unlimited charging privileges

May 28, 2012 08:53 GMT  ·  By

Before jumping at the chance of buying an electric car, just for the sake of environment, most ordinary citizens wonder if perhaps they might find themselves spending more money on electricity than on gas.

Should they come to the conclusion that this is indeed the case, odds are that Mother Nature and its well-being will be ignored in favor of more practical issues, such as the family's monthly budget or the possibility of investing that extra amount of money in something less expensive and at the same time less “green”-ish.

However, American automotive companies are currently working towards helping their costumers overcome these financial setbacks.

Their plan is to implement a fixed monthly fee which allows electric car owners to recharge as much as they want, wherever they want.

After preliminary discussions on the matter, it was decided that this sum of money would probably end up revolving somewhere around $150 (€120), an amount which would hopefully be considered fairly reasonable by your average Joe.

Unfortunately, for the time being, it seems that this program will be forced to wait before it finds itself all up and running.

According to evworld.com, this is particularly because the number of electric cars actually purchased throughout the world is not yet as high so as to allow for automotive companies to go ahead and invest in building counteless charging stations for such vehicles.

To put it bluntly: no company which doesn't have bankruptcy as its goal is going to spend what can turn out to be quite a large amount of money on creating facilities for a rather limited number of customers. Come to think about it, nobody can really hold this against them.

Studies show that for such a project to be succesfully implemented in the US, a total of 50,000 electric cars should be strolling up and down American highways and boulevards.

Interestingly enough, the Frech government, together with Frech car manufecturers, seem to have already taken a keen interest in the matter, in the sense that high officials in this country have declared that they are more than willing to offer loans so as to help implement such a program in France.

Thus, Francois Hollande, the current Frech president, is looking into the possibility of striking a partnership with auto companies in the country with the sole purpose of aiding the development of an electric vehicles industry here.

It is our belief that, given the growing interest in environmental issues, it is only a matter of time before both America and the entire continent of Europe are faced with having most of their citizens owning electric cars, rather than regular, gas-fueled vehicles.