Recently I was interested in seeing how our electric car business is coming along and browsing I came across this interesting announcement that GE made not too long about with the charging ports that they developed! I actually find this incredibly cool, it looks almost like a slightly larger parking meter but it charges your car. When you go up to one of these car chargers the device has an LED indicator ring around the top edge which changes colors depending upon whether the charging port is available for use (green if available, red when it’s not, and blue when it is in use). The power output is the part that actually impressed me the most, apparently it should be able to charge a car in as little as 4-8 hours rather then today’s chargers which take 12-16 hours.

GE Car Charger interface

If you look at the images above, the user interface appears to be incredibly simple and easy to use (perfect for all people no matter how tech savvy you are). Definitely looks way more simple to use then the UI that today’s gas stations have! Apparently these stations should start being put up in 2011 and a smaller home version will be released some time later this year.

Take a look at the pictures below and let me know what you think :)

Two cars

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Source: Gizmodo

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