<p>[Business</a> & Technology | Hawaii to be 1st state with electric car stations | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008463160_apelectriccarstations.html]Business”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008463160_apelectriccarstations.html)</p>
<p>Actually, as some of the commenters noticed, the first state to try it out was CA. Way to go, HI! I’m looking forward to renting one of those cars.</p>
<p>As the article pointed out, HI is a fairly ideal place to introduce electric cars due to the contained nature of the islands. It also seems to me that there aren’t a lot of people heading long distances there - i.e. no San Diego to LA or Santa Cruz to San Jose commuters, and no routine 300 mile jaunts like around here, which makes an electric vehicle even more viable.</p>
<p>I’d be willing to rent one there - especially if they throw in a week at a nice beach hotel as incentive!</p>
<p>It has always seemed the ideal place for more earth-friendly modes of transportation like bikes, scooters, skates, but it’s VERY dangerous around here because cars really rule the road. Hope that it really happens that we are more electric & solar–we have TONS of sunlight that could easily be used & often enter the solar car annual competition.</p>