Charging employees. To be more specific, waiting until plug-ins are available so he can let employees charge their PHEVs from solar panels at work. What a perquisite, gassing up for free at your place of employment. Here's a reader's letter to USA Today, telling us what he intends to do:
Consider solar recharge
Robert Myers - Columbia, Mo.
USA TODAY's story on plug-in hybrid electric cars raises a number of good points about the tradeoff in pollution.
But the article fails to mention an approach that has many plug-in hybrid advocates excited — using solar panels in the parking lots of companies or other institutions to charge the cars during the day while the owner is working. No battery storage for the solar panels is needed because the cars are providing the batteries. This approach is quiet, less polluting than coal and would allow employers to become part of the energy solution.
I plan to offer solar charging for my employees as soon as the technology is available.
Posted at 12:10 AM/ET, February 29, 2008
