+ Australia Building Huge Electric Car Grid: 600,000+ Stations By 2012

Via Gizmodo comes news that Australia is rolling out some extremely impressive new infrastructure:

Apparently not content with just one giant ongoing infrastructure project, Australia has committed to fully outfitting three of its biggest cities for widespread electric car use. In hardware terms, that amounts to 200,000-250,000 charging stations each for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with an additional 150 battery swap stations scattered between them. The effort will cost $1bn in Australian Dingo Dollars, which is about $667m USD. If that's not ambitious enough for you, consider this: it should be online in three years.

Whether you're an electric car fan or not, it's definitely inspirational to see them taking the lead on such a massive project. We can only hope that it inspires other countries and organizations to do the same!