While I applaud the move toward a more ecologically-friendly system of private transportation, what are the logistics of using this technology, especially in a heavily-developed suburban area?

If everyone converted to electric cars, would the electrical grid be able to support them? Would every home owner be required to have a solar charging station? Where would they install them and how would this interfere with the varying HOA requirements? Even if not home installed, would there be enough outlets to supply the sheer amount of automobiles that would exist in this area?

I am all for "Green Energy", but the complications that would arise as people had to install power stations at home or would vie for public ones (like they do at gas stations) seem problematic... especially at a rate of 4-7 ~hours~ per "fill up". Hopefully this technology moves fast toward a more reasonable solution, instead of attempts to implement inventions that are half-finished and unfeasible given the situation.

@David - I don't believe I was panicking, so much as raising legitimate questions about the feasibility of the program in it's current state.

According to 2009 census data, there are 3.9 million licensed drivers in Maryland. That doesn't even count people who have multiple cars or the thousands of out-of-state drivers that travel, commute, or stay here. If even half of those suddenly switched to pure electric vehicles, what would the consequences be?

Would the electrical grid be able to support the draw of almost 2 million cars at a rate of 1.5 kWh/hour ~each~ (based on a normal house outlet)? Even during lower cost periods, such as night?

Say that everyone installs one of these new solar panel arrays at their home to help supplement this increase in electricity requirements. I can't find any specific references to the size of area needed, but using references in the above photo suggest an area of 12' x 8' x 8' is necessary. What will the HOAs say should half the homeowners suddenly wish to sport these in their yards?

Again, read what I said: I ~support~ Green Energy and ecologically-friendly technology. However, we should not jump headfirst into technology when it is not quite finished. Remember the fiasco with hybrid cars when they first came out and the severe costs on repairing/maintaining them. Only now are we perfecting that technology, so we need to be careful about immediately jumping to the next level.

@brook @davidbrown, @ohai , @andrew Metcalfe

The ATR Solar EV charging station is designed track the sun producing up to 30% more power over the course of the day . Also it's grid-tied , feeding the electricity you do not consume back to the grid .
And because it' grid tied you can still charge your vehicle at night.

The benefits to the Home owner or Business owner are :

A 30%Federal Rebate and any State or Local govt tax incentives and SREC's with solar .

Also depending on the Utility provider, the owner can qualify for clean energy production credits which lower your energy bill while offsetting your daytime consumption saving you money our the course of the year .

@H.R.Pufnstuf: no offense, but you lack imagination. I've read of skeptics like that even in the 1020's thought air travel was a hobby for the rich and adventurous, or people in the late 70's who thought computers were for big government and corporations, and that the only home applications were for kids to play on the Atari, Commodore 500 and Tandy (not sure of the spelling, but it was made by RadioShack). It's ok if you want to be held back for lack of imagination, but don't accuse other and the government for thinking big and being bold.