How to Jump Start Electric Cars: Charging Companies

摘要

Throughout the electric utility industry, there is a burgeoning hope that the future will be fine; that the predations of rooftop solar and the arrival of non-traditional companies in the electric space will be compensated for by a huge, new market: the electric car. It does look, at long last, that the time of the electric car is at hand, if charging can be simplified and, more important, if charging technology can be the basis of a whole new business opportunity. Car-charging could and should be an industry separate from traditional utility activities. I suggest that the possibilities for that market are quite good, but it will not develop if the utilities try and manage it themselves. They need to let it go.