ELECTRIC CARS ARE COMING TO NEW YORK CITY - CrossTownNews.Com

CROSS TOWN NEWS at www.CrossTownNews.com reports this week that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Coulomb Technologies CEO Richard Lowenthal have together announced the installation of the first Coulomb Charge-Point Networked Charging Station for electric vehicles in New York City. The station, part of the $37 million Charge-Point America program, will be one of more than 100 Charge-Point electric vehicle charging stations to be installed throughout the metropolitan area. Coulomb is working with Ford, Chevrolet and smart USA, all of whom have announced plans to introduce electric vehicles in New York in the coming months. Also, new figures from a CBS NEWS POLL show that A majority of Americans have a negative impression of the economy and expect the effects of the recession to linger for years. According to the CBS Poll most have also said that President Obama has spent too little time on the economy, which Americans cite as the country's most important problem by a wide margin. Three in four Americans now say the effects of the recession will last another two years or more. More than eight in 10 people say the condition of the economy is bad, ... that figure up five points from last month.

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