AAA Adds EV Charging Station Locations to Digital Mapping Tools
ORLANDO, Fla., March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AAA's TripTik Travel Planner and TripTik Mobile app alleviate range anxiety for electric vehicle drivers.
To help early 1900s motorists plan their fuel stops, AAA marked gas station locations on early strip maps. Jump ahead a century and, today, AAA helps ease range anxiety for EV drivers by identifying charging station locations in its digital mapping tools.
With a choice of the TripTik® Travel Planner on AAA.com or the free AAA TripTik Mobile app for smartphones, finding places to recharge electric vehicles before they run out of energy just got easier. Using these tools, EV motorists can locate more than 2,000 publicly available electric vehicle charging stations across the United States, including independent stations and those that are part of a network. Data is supplied by the U.S. Department of Energy.
To find charging stations near an address or along a route, users select a green plug icon to display locations on a map in TripTik Travel Planner or the TripTik Mobile app. Clicking on an icon opens a listing that provides the station address, hours, charger levels and, where available, a telephone number. App users can dial the listed numbers in a single touch to check station availability status.
Auto Insurance Discount Initiative May be Gaining Bipartisan Endorsement
The backers of an automobile insurance persistency initiative are making steps to gain bi-partisan support for their proposition, which is slated for California’s Nov. 6 ballot and a possible showdown with what would be a competing initiative.
Just days after the California Republican Party endorsed the 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act , Don Perata, former Senate president pro tempore, also offered his endorsement. And this week California State Sen. Juan Vargas (D-San Diego), former Chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee, announced his endorsement.
“I think that this is a bipartisan issue,” said Vargas, who argued the initiative, backed by the American Agents Alliance and personally by Mercury Insurance Co. Chairman George Joseph, is consumer friendly.
Perata, a Democrat who was a runner up in the race to be Oakland’s mayor in 2010, no longer serves in Legislature, but the initiative’s backers view his endorsement and Vargas’ as a momentum builder.
