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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">rding to the Inspector Generals report, ECOtality
was required to kick in a minimum of 20 percent of cost
sharing under the $35 million in grants, and under the $100 million
award, it was to match the taxpayer subsidy. But the DOE allowed
ECOtality to use monthly costs of car owners and other expenses it
did not directly incur to leverage the federal funds. That meant the
company took on little risk in return for its subsidies, the report
said.Although there is no clear legislative history on the meaning behind
requiring recipients to provide cost-share, the concept is generally understood
to mitigate risk, help leverage federal investments, and ensure that recipients
have some skin in the game in these kinds of transactions, the
IG report said.ECOtality planned a full rollout of charging stations in
five major metro areas to address one of the biggest problems facing
the market for electric cars range anxiety, or fear that owners
wont be able to easily charge them. The goal, according to the
report, was for government to stimulate the installation of so many chargers
at commercial and residential locations, that places to re-power cars would
be nearly as ubiquitous as gas stations.But weak demand for the electric
cars resulted in a diminished need for chargers and the DOE and
ECOtality sought to reach the 15,000-charging station goal by spreading
the program to five more markets. The company also went heavier on
home-chargers for in
One of the biggest impediments to establishing a market for electric cars
is the lack of charging stations, like this one in Montpelier, Vt.
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)A California company was given more than $100 million
in taxpayer funds by the federal government with few strings attached
to establish a network of electric car charging stations that is
fraught with problems, according to a government audit.All this, despite
weak demand by the American public for electric cars.While President Obama
has pledged to get 1 million electric cars on U.S. roads by
2015, a new report by the Department of Energys inspector general found
that Americans aversion to electric vehicles and loose department supervision
led to stalling the charging network which cost taxpayers more than
$135 million.The report noted the project was filled with problems from
the beginning, and said taxpayer-funded grants to San Francisco-based ECOtality
for it were very generous and involved little risk by the company.-
Inspector General's reportECOtality, which recently named Brandon Hurlbut,
former chief of staff for ex-Energy Secretary Steven Chu, to its board,
won a $99.8 million award in 2009 to install nearly 15,000 electric
vehicle chargers throughout the country.The company and its subsidiaries
also received about $35 million from the departments Vehicle Technologies
Program from 2005 to 2011, for two multiyear projects to evaluate and
test specific vehicles.Acco
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