This is great news for our region! It should make road tripping by electric car much easier in the future.
There will be electric vehicle charging stations the entire length of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in about a year and a half.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection awarded a $1 million grant to Car Charging Group LLC to build charging stations at 17 service plazas on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The work will be fully completed by July 2013.
But don't make plans to have your fully electric car on the Turnpike around here immediately. DEP said that its first priority would be to install the electric charging stations on the Turnpike between Harrisburg and New Jersey, then between Harrisburg and the Ohio line (including Pittsburgh) and then finally along the Northeastern Extension north of Philadelphia to Scranton.
Some of the stations will charge an electric car in about four hours. Others will take 20 minutes.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection awarded a $1 million grant to Car Charging Group LLC to build charging stations at 17 service plazas on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The work will be fully completed by July 2013.
But don't make plans to have your fully electric car on the Turnpike around here immediately. DEP said that its first priority would be to install the electric charging stations on the Turnpike between Harrisburg and New Jersey, then between Harrisburg and the Ohio line (including Pittsburgh) and then finally along the Northeastern Extension north of Philadelphia to Scranton.
Some of the stations will charge an electric car in about four hours. Others will take 20 minutes.
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