New McDonald's Restaurant Provides Electronic Charging Stations
The Raleigh News & Observer reports that a new McDonald's in Cary, North Carolina is going to be the first McDonald's to have electric vehicle charging stations. The restaurant will have two stations that will let customers charge their cars for free while they eat. The Cary, NC McDonald's restaurant is also under review to be LEED-certified.
The Cary McDonald's is under review to be LEED-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. It would become the third McDonald's to receive certification, after restaurants in Savannah, Ga., and Chicago.
To start, the restaurant will feature two charging stations, which will sit at the front of a parking space. If the feature proves popular, McDonald's can expand the system to add more stations, said Helda Rodriguez, president of NovaCharge, the Florida distributor of the ChargePoint stations.
The charge is free.
The ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations are made by Coulomb Technologies. More coverage of McDonald's move into the green car realm can be found at OhGizmo, Creative Loafing, BusinessGreen, Gizmodo and Inhabitat.
Posted on July 9, 2009
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