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" Alt-fuel vehicles are usually accompanied by great arguments on paper\u2014fewer emissions, less reliance on oil, lower operating costs, etc.\u2014but getting people to adopt them en masse is no easy thing.\u00A0 The big\u00A0obstacle is infrastructure, or more to the point, a\u00A0lack thereof. Tesla grasped this early on and introduced the Supercharger network to give its customers free charging stations along well-trafficked corridors, thereby creating a blueprint for other manufacturers to follow.\u00A0  Enter Volkswagen, BMW, and ChargePoint, who are the first to crib Elon Musk&amp;#039;s model in the hopes that doing so will encourage more people to drive electric cars like the VW\u00A0e-Golf and BMW i3.\u00A0 At the Washington Auto Show, the trio announced that \u00A0they&amp;#039;re partnering to install 100 new DC fast chargers on the east and west coasts. These will be available to the public as part of the ChargePoint network, which members pay to use.\u00A0  The new chargers will be set at around\u00A050-mile intervals on two corridors:\u00A0 I-95 between Boston and Washington, D.C, and then a West Coast route that connects\u00A0Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The DC chargers let a i3 or e-Golf get an 80% charge in 20 or 30 minutes, depending on whether they&amp;#039;re 50kW or 24kW units,\u00A0and they&amp;#039;ll be backed up at every location by Level 2 chargers\u2014like those that EV drivers generally have installed at home\u2014which provide about 25 miles worth of range per hour.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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