OK...I Admit I Support BP

Another Warrior sent me a link which lead me to do a little surfing and came across this:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/07/jfe_engineering_reveals_quick_battery_chargers_for _electric_vehicles.html

Japan is starting to test a system that quick charges a car battery. After a 3 minute charge, you can drive about 30 miles and after a 5 minute charge you can drive about 45 miles.

Japan is also starting to test battery exchange stations using 3 taxi cabs for testing. The same company is also setting up similar systems in Israel and The Netherlands, which are powered by wind.
Electric Car Battery Swapping Station Launched in Japan | PriceWheels Blog

And Renault is releasing the first electric car with a changable battery by the end of 2011 to work with these changing stations.

One key to this is the car batteries. Wind isn't dependable, but the use of car batteries makes it possible (and practical) to store the energy created from the wind so that peak wind times don't have to exactly correspond with peak demand, a real weakness with wind.

This also means that solar and wind powered battery exchange centers don't have to be on a larger grid and can be independent. In theory, a large windmill could power a changing station in the middle of Kansas without the need to be connected to any grid.

As T Boone Pickens points out, the key is to converting to domestic energy is to start with fleet vehicles, taxis, buses, postal vehicles, cop cars, etc. Many of these vehicles drive on predictable routes and "return home" every night. A lot of major corporations have already agreed to convert in Israel and the Netherlands.

In the SE, convert to natural gas vehicles. LA and TX and the Gulf have tons of natural gas. Every home in America that has natural gas is already on the "network" and in theory, you could have a special adaptor installed and fill up your natural gas powered car at home. Again, as Pickens says if we don't start using our own natural gas and keep paying for foreign oil, we'll go down as the dumbest people in history.

Areas in the high plains start converting to electricity powered by wind. Our high plains are the "Saudi Arabia" of wind power.

In the SW, we start converting to solar. Our SW is the "Saudi Arabia" of solar and is as powerful a solar resource as anywhere on the planet. I've read a couple of experts claim that just a 100 square mile area could produce enough solar energy to power the entire country. The land is all federally owned, there's tons of out of work construction workers in Las Vegas and California is hurting too.

The problem is, the US doesn't even have a plan to consider converting to electric or other types of cars...And the company building these battery changing stations is an American-based company.

BTW, the company building these systems in Japan, Israel and The Netherlands is Better Place, or BP...Which is why I used "BP" used in the title of this thread, and who I support...Not those other guys...
Better Place | The Global Provider of EV Networks and Services.