First solar-powered charging station in New York City

New Yorkers behold! The first solar powered EV charging station is here, settling down at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, waiting to juice up your EV with some juice from the sun. the 85-acre sustainable waterfront park will play home to this state-of-the-art solar-powered electric vehicle charging station designed and built by the Beautiful Earth Group. The charging station alone is expected to save up a good $200,000 in gasoline costs and a lot more in electricity costs over the next 25 years of its life span. The Park’s service vehicles will use the charging station, helping the save up a load of money and energy in the bargain. That’s not all. 530 tons of CO2 would have been emitted if the Park had chosen gasoline powered vehicles instead.

The initiative has given the already-eco-friendly Park a darker shade of green. Solar powered EV charging stations seem to be the best way to power up those green clean EVs, decreasing the strain on the grid.

[Marketwire]