New York gets its first solar EV charging station, you can’t use it

What do you do when you’ve got two disused shipping crates, some photovoltaics, and a couple buckets of toxic green paint? Why, you make a solar electric vehicle charging station, the first in New York as it happens. It was created by Beautiful Earth Group, which whipped up this self-contained charging station to juice the company’s car, a similarly painted BMW Mini E that just so happens to fit nicely inside — so long as you don’t want to open the doors too wide. About three hours charges the little sucker up for its maximum range of 100 miles, which ought to be just enough to get you out to the Hamptons. Not that you’d want to go there this time of year.

New York gets its first solar EV charging station, you can’t use it originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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