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charging point 100 miles away.
The Beatty site was installed by Valley Electric Association and activated in March at Eddie World, not far from the eastern entrance to Death Valley.
The Paiute Shoshone tribe in Fallon is hosting a charging site along the Electric Highway, which is under construction at this time and should be activated before the end of the year.
The Nevada Department of Transportation has partnered with NV Energy to install two more recharging sites at a highway rest stop in Hawthorne and on a highway junction near Tonopah that should be completed in early 2017.
The Governor’s Office of Energy is planning Phase II of the Nevada Electric Highway, which will add 24 more electric car-recharging sites to rural locations around the state during the next four years. The proposed locations are near major U.S. interstate highway corridors that connect Nevada roadways to five neighboring states, including Interstate 15, Interstate 80, Interstate 50, U.S. 95 and U.S. Route 93.
Attendees at the local electric car rally Sept. 10 will have a chance to visit with owners of different electric-car models available through local dealerships, as well as learn how to use the public network of plug-in charging stations located strategically around the Las Vegas Valley, many of them providing electricity at no cost to electric-vehicle owners.
The third annual Electric Juice Bar Crawl invites event attendees to ride in a caravan of electric cars that will visit public electric car-charging sites available at the Clark County Government Center, City Hall of Las Vegas parking garage, City Hall of North Las Vegas parking lot, an NV Energy campus, Tesla Motors Supercharger station in downtown Las Vegas and a DC fast charging station that is one of a dozen electricity “pumps” installed at Terrible Herbst service stations throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
Tahiti Village also hosts a DC Fast Charge station in its parking garage for public use near Las Vegas Boulevard South and Russell Road.
These recharging sites can be located through a mobile phone app like plugshare.com, but also usually are displayed on the GPS navigation systems of most electric cars as a map overlay.
Public recharging stations provided by ChargePoint, Green Lots and NRG EVgo are connected by a cellular signal to a nationwide cloud of computer servers that collect and disseminate their usage information in real time. While searching for a public charging site, electric-car drivers can monitor if nearby network plug stations are being used by other electric cars within their vicinity.
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