McDonalds hasn’t decided to start selling gas, especially with the nasty economy. But the company is thinking about your car. Actually I bet McDonalds is considering ways to determine how to get you to spend as much time as possible inside their restaurants. How will they do that? Well it looks like while you eat, your electric car is going to receive its precious energy free of charge in McDonalds’s parking lot. The first restaurant to offer this incentive is located in Cary, NC, and it will be able to charge your electric car starting July 14th. Ric Richards had this to say:

The networked grid-friendly charging stations are a perfect complement to the many innovative green features of the restaurant. Our customers will have a dedicated place to park and recharge their vehicles. McDonalds is enabling a better environment for future generations by supporting zero-emissions transportation infrastructure, through the use of the ChargePointSM Network.

Will such a move convince you to purchase your first electric car? Will you eat more at McDonalds after that?
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It was recently announced that McDonalds restaurants in Sweden will begin testing an array of yellow-posts that do none other than charge your hybrid vehicle.

This comes as an alliance recently formed with Swedish company Elforsk which will provide the posts with enough juice given McDonalds pays for the installation of the posts.

This seems like a ploy from McDonalds to create a green image so people will forget that their food causes all sorts of obesity and malnutrition and remember them as the environmentally friendly fast food chain.

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