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On Monday night, Professor Willett Kempton of the University of Delaware presented a proposal to locate free charging stations in Rehoboth Beach to the city commissioners. Some of them balked at the idea. The Mayor Sam Cooper said, “I’m agnostic on electric cars. If you want one, fine, but you got to know what you are buying. You can’t expect to be bailed out by the city of Rehoboth Beach."

Dr. Kempton is leading a program in partnership with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to place a number of EV charging stations throughout the state at 50 mile intervals. These will be 16-kilowatt stations according to several news reports. The Delaware Beaches are a great location for a 16 kW destination charge.

Listen to the presentation and comments by the city commissioners on this audio recording, starting at 0:16:00. Some of it is quite amusing.

Here is a TV news story with video: Rehoboth Beach Considers Charging Stations for Electric Cars

Some of the city leaders seem to think that nobody travels there in an electric car. I've driven there twice from the Washington, DC area and am sending an email letting them know.

Here is contact info for Rehoboth Beach Mayor, Board of Commissioners & City Manager Sharon Lynn.

Lanny