A new sign that greets drivers entering the eight story parking structure at Seattle Tacoma (SeaTac) International Airport but it is still enough to make an internal combustion engine stutter. Accompanied by a stylized graphic of a car, electric cable and lightning bolt, the sign announces that electric car charging stations are being installed on Level 5.The move comes as MINI has just begun electric car trials in New York, New Jersey and California and two years before Chevy is slated to roll out the Volt, the plug-in hybrid on which GM appears to betting the company.
The executives of GM and the other Detroit-based auto makers are due back in Washington, DC on Tuesday for a second shot at extracting at least $25 billion in bridge loans from Congress by presenting more detailed plans for how they will use the money. It seems that, in the "other Washington," other public officials are presuming on the what those plans contain.
It would be a good idea to give aid to the car companies only on the undertaking that they would make X amount of X % of fuel efficient, or electric cars. That would make sense in a climate where everyone wants to reduce both their carbon footprint as well as their transport costs.