I spent my junior high years in Voltageville. Well, actually, they called it Vacaville then. Population 30,000; a little agrarian town/military base bedroom community midway between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Now apparently it is to be known as Voltageville. The place to drop in to get your electric vehicle charged. Boasting more charging stations per capita (40 in that little burg), a city fleet flush with electric vehicles (24 of 'em), and soon, the first Level 3 charging station in the US (recharging electric vehicles in a lunch-break fast 25 minutes).
Howard Heustis, a city employee "originally hired as part of a congestion management agency to help businesses reduce employees' trips to the work site" put Vacaville on the EV map. The state bristling with Tesla roadsters and a proliferating infrastructure to support them (take a look at this spread of charging stations in the Golden State) now counts sleepy old Vacaville as its premier wired-vehicle hot spot.
Watch out, you know how this goes: what starts in California is coming to the rest of us. Next thing you know, they'll have charging stations all over Texas and Massachusetts and all parts between.
Photo: happyshooter capturing warm memories of the Milk Farm restaurant sign on flickr
(First heard about Voltageville in this interview about the Nissan Leaf with Nissan Director of Product Planning for North America, Mark Perry)
Tags: Electric Cars, Stealth Technologies, Transportation, Transportation Infrastructure
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