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Sure. It's greenwashing. And nuts for McD's to think that parking there for 20 minutes will do anything for an EV driver. Or that a typical EV driver would eat at McD's. Or that McD's employees could afford an EV to drive to work and be charging there.
But it's something.
If McD's wanted to REALLY do something - announce a systemic program to retrofit 70% of all of it's corporate , manufacturing, and distribution auto and truck fleets to EV's.
The logistics are ALREADY available.
http://www.pevnet.com
How about McDonald's goes green by shutting down.
if you're conscious enough of your impact on the planet that you drive an electric car, then you're probably not eating at mcdonalds anyway.
when this fails it will be used as "evidence" that americans don't want electric cars, rather than evidence that conscious people don't eat garbage.
If mcdonald's was serious about going green, they'd close all their drive-thru lanes. Long line of cars sitting idling isn't exactly environmentally helpful.
These plug ins are a diversion and pr.
uber-greenwashing
It's the future. If only Detroit had seen it coming, it would be here now. But that's what happens when you get old and set in your ways, like the United States. The establishment holds you back from change. That's why we can't do health care. Stuck with what we've got.
Tesla Motors Model S will be available in 2011, but it's very pricey at $49,900. Really cool car, though. And last I heard Detroit Electric, a Netherlands company, will be available in 2010 in North America with a still nifty car at a much cheaper price, but I haven't seen recent confirmation.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
These guys are wrong, wrong, wrong, now the same ones say oh its warming up now.....seems like they're computer models are missing something big....perhaps the problem is they can't even predict what the temperature will be in a few days.....
Ya'll are going crazy over nothing....
More people in NH have smart cars with and golf carts they go to the stores with.
Charging them for a half hour will give them more mileage range.
This doesnt mean Mickie Dees is environmentally friendly.
This is just greenwash. An electric car usually needs to be recharged overnight. How many miles (yards?) of charge is it going to get in the twenty minutes or so that it takes for the average customer to buy and wolf down their burger and fries? And are they going to put in a high wattage line? I doubt it with their narrow profit margins.
On the other hand, if they put in electric car charging stations at their regional and headquarters so that employees could recharge their cars for the eight hours or so while they are at work, that would be genuinely green rather than greenwash.
Not so if it's 480 volt. Check out Tesla Motors and charging times for their Model S.
This custom "production" vehicle is for the wealthy that can afford to have "custom" electrical service to these specs professionally installed in their multi car garages. NOWHERE ELSE will they find 480 volt service breakers.
Another EV waste of millions of dollars for the sake of PR.
Cool car though.
The CHAMPION of the future of EV's is the manufacturer that recalls the lessons of good ole Henry Ford.
Make em cheap and make LOTS of them. The FIRST company to do that AND creates its OWN charging network to make it all go will have the head start. In this respect, it pays to look at the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft.
http://www.pevnet.com
And you expect that McD is going to hang out a 480v one and a half kilowatt line for just anybody to tap into? For free?
Ahhhh...now someone who THINKS! Electric vehicles do not need charging "stations". They just need a "network" to guarantee access and electricity commerce. Charging @ home, @ office or work, the mall, movies, parking structures; anywhere the EV will be for more than an hour WORKS!!
www.pevnet.com
This is not surprising at all. Mikky D's has always been at the front of setting new global goals for fast food stores. Now I know a lot of their food's nutritional benefits leave something to be desired(to say the least), but they are smart when it comes to global competition, and they will hopefully take this and put it into some of the tens of thousands of stores they have across the globe, which will set a new standard for others in the world, which only leads to good things and more competition. They did the same thing with cleanliness standards all over the world. Good Job.
When they start selling certified organic, locally-grown food, let me know. And, pay their employees a livable wage, I should add.
LEED building is great for any business, but when their core mission (food) changes, then they will have transformed themselves. This is still just green-washing.
When their average employee is something other than a spotty 16 year old maybe they'll worry about a "living wage"
Would be more appropriate if McDonald's provided the grease for cars that run on it. Endless supply there.
That way you can save the earth while you die from hypertension.
I never eat McDonalds, but this is akin to free "gas". Awesome!
That does has it's appeal; I normally have to buy their food to get gas.
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First Posted: 07- 9-09 06:19 PM | Updated: 08- 9-09 05:12 AM