(NY) The New York Times – The idea was to nudge innovative retailers into putting enough clean-fuel pit stops in place to create the nation’s longest alternative energy road. On this highway, you could drive from British Columbia to Baja — the entire length — in a car powered by woodchips or algae, ethanol or electricity.
West Coast governors, backed by federal officials, imagined a series of stations that would allow drivers to swap out a fresh battery in minutes for electric vehicles, which can go about 100 miles on a charge. And every 60 miles or so would be a station with biofuel of some sort. Much of this, they said over the last two years, could be in place now. More