ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS COULD FOLLOW YOU AROUND

Could the fear of running out of power in an electric vehicle keep people from buying them?  It is a possibility and researchers at the Mitsubishi's lab in Cambridge, MA have come up with a novel way to help alleviate the problem.

By using a central database to compile power usage and battery capacity from electric vehicles, then using that data to locate where the vehicles find they need re-charging the most, they would then send mobile power stations to those locations.

The mobile power stations would also need recharging, however this could be done overnight, when demand for recharging of vehicles would be slower, or by solar power. [New Scientist]