Electric cars are finally becoming more a reality, between the Nissan Leaf, the Chevy Volt (though the Volt is cheating), and the Tesla Roadster, we’re seeing more and more places starting to build electric cars for the consumer market.  Of course, the biggest problem with the electric vehicle, though they’ve been around for 100 years, is carrying enough juice to get from place to place.

Just two months ago, DC got its first public charging station, and today, DC got its first private charging station, in the swank apartment building at 425 Mass Ave NW. The apartment complex run by Equity Group normally has all their electric and wiring work done by the same company which you can get a hold of if you navigate to this website. Now in preparing for the future, they have added the first of what they hope is many Coulomb ChargePoint stations supplied by Car Charging Group which will support two cars in special spaces in their garage.

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