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What's with the superior attitude of owning an electric cart and not producing noxious emissions? Electric carts get their power from coal-fired electric power plants!

Here is SECO, our supplier:

Seminole Generating Station

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Intermediate capacity to meet member needs during high demand periods
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Crystal River 3 Nuclear Plant
Seminole owns a 14 megawatt share of Progress Energy Florida’s Crystal River 3 nuclear plant.

Seminole Electric Cooperative is a generation and transmission cooperative

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I've often wondered why TV's doesn't have charging stations placed around TV's for people who own electric golf carts especially since adding Brownwood. Even in the Town Squares it would be night just to recharge for half an hour or so.
And should they provide chargers for every type electric vehicle or should each driver carry their own?
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The heck with all of that I want golf cart manufacturers to mass produced hybrid golf carts.

The solar panels made for golf carts offer a trickle of power. However, I am told that if /when lithium batteries are perfected for golf carts solar panel will be all that is needed to recharge them.

I still prefer the hybrid golf cart idea. The price on such a cart would just skyrocket wouldn't it.
EZ Go aleady does make a hybrid. It isn't nearly as efficient as a hybrid car, but that will probably change. The dealership in the strip mall behind CVS on 466 had one last year that one of the sales people was driving.
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How about a sticker in your home window allowing emergency short term charging. Just a thought.
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Charging stations would be billed using the users credit card, no cost to anyone else. The power would come from the main cables underground, not from a business. The right to install and maintain the charging stations would be up for bid, winning company installs and maintains, costs are paid by charging fee.
I saw a prototype charging station by Ford at Winter CES, powered by solar cells on top.
It is doable, won't cost any non electric vehicle user anything, won't cost businesses any thing. It is the future and the future is here.
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Charging stations would be billed using the users credit card, no cost to anyone else. .
How long to be plugged in to get a meaningful charge?

Where would they be located not to cause a traffic or parking jam?
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I figure that I'd just find a Snowbird house and plug in.
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How long to be plugged in to get a meaningful charge?
That is the real question. Those carts with fairly new batteries can recharge within an hour. Those with old batteries would take a very long time.

I am lead to believe that if you cut the charge short it causes more problems with the batteries that it is worth.

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How about a sticker in your home window allowing emergency short term charging. Just a thought.
That would work. At the bottom of the sticker in small letters it could read 25 cents a minute or whatever you feel comfortable with charging for the charging.

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The charging posts would in my design, be located along the parking spots in the Squares and some, based on projected need, in the shopping centers. They would be designed to look like hitching posts.
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Charging stations would be billed using the users credit card, no cost to anyone else. The power would come from the main cables underground, not from a business. The right to install and maintain the charging stations would be up for bid, winning company installs and maintains, costs are paid by charging fee.
I saw a prototype charging station by Ford at Winter CES, powered by solar cells on top.
It is doable, won't cost any non electric vehicle user anything, won't cost businesses any thing. It is the future and the future is here.
The "main cables underground" are of much too high voltage to run a charger, so you would need a transformer. Where would you put that ? On the sidewalk ?
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