It represents, both executives said, the electric "filling station" of the future.
The teen diary feels utterly believable and weirdly mesmerizing: dreamy, repetitive, incantatory, electric, filled with longing and intelligence.
The automakers have said this is possible, but are concerned about the cost of implementation, electric filling stations and what the public can afford.
Under the Better Place business model, customers not only recharge their electric cars but also periodically stop at an electric filling station to swap their nearly depleted batteries for freshly charged ones.
"Kinshasa is electric, filled with music, sapeurs" — men and women who fancy themselves members of a high-end fashion cult and engage in regular "Defi de Sape," or nonviolent label wars — "and live concerts, like no other town I have seen," Holler recalls.
Another, proposed by former software executive Shai Agassi, entails electric filling stations at which car owners would make a quick swap of a depleted battery for a charged battery.
And "electric filling stations" are starting to proliferate.
The electric vehicles fill roughly every other available space on the production line, but GM hopes to ramp up production to 60,000 electric cars by next year.
When the Training Academy is in session, electric pops fill the air from customers and employees who want to experience being tased.
The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2004, had French employees of a gas and electric company fill out annual questionnaires.
