I was in SF this past week and saw six over two days. Only one leaf and two CMax Energi. No volts.

Parking spaces with numbers are metered for parking payment. Not a charger. This is the good thing about teslas over leafs. More range means less need to plug in at work.

Another good thing about the volt is that it is American made. PiP fully imported and much of the CMax in Mexico.

Supercharges are an outlier condition. Not all tesla users would use them daily or even weekly. Most would do as usual, charge at home, drive their radius. I guess someone in Baltimore who gets a job in Wilmington, DE and wants to refill on the way home would make the Newark, DE supercharger a common stopping point. But adding an hour to your round trip seems a little much to your day. Commute distances like that are crazy stuff.

It could, in theory, but does it?

Israel is the size of New Jersey. Many of us here in the USA drive farther distances than that daily. Just read a news story of 600,000 commuters drive 90 minutes each way and over 50 miles each way. And I think that is California alone. In New Jersey, some commutes are 30 miles to a train station and another hour or more on a train to NYC. Some people drive the full distance. My boss used to drive 72 miles each way for 15 years. Better place couldn't handle these distances.

When the number of potential users increase, I'm sure that more stations could be laid out. Also, I really think Nissan should sponsor DC fast charging stations at rest stops too. They need to get the same end user enticements out there to allow for longer distance commuting with their leaf model.

How about taxing those who abuse the roads the most. Heavy trucks, larger SUVs and anyone driving a German car...

Mark, states have no fiscal reason to promote fuel efficiency. Less efficient vehicles give them more tax revenue. Now that fuel efficient vehicles are out there now, they need to find out how to capture that "revenue that they are owed" which is the real problem.

Hasn't NYC stated they will be using the Nissan 200's for Taxi cabs? Won't there be an electric version of those? What I would like to see is a good spread of electric cabs using these new stations so that the biggest user of roads (taxis) are driving electric.

I see a few DHL and USPS trucks in NYC which are electric-only. Nice to see that kind of support. What I do also see are limo drivers idling outside buildings for hours and taxis idling for hours while in taxi lines. I stay in a hotel next to the Port Authority bus terminal (40th st) a lot - tons of diesel noise in there from the busses of various size. Sure would be nice to quiet down the neighborhood :)

I do use a plug at one NJ Transit train station for my Volt: 120V plug.