11Alive’s Doug Richards contacted me yesterday and inquired about Decatur’s recent accolade of being deemed “Georgia’s Most Walkable City” by Walkscore.com.  I rattled off a couple potential contacts and suggested that he also might want to include a “CCP Games Moving to Decatur” angle to make the story a bit more topical.  Above is the result. (Also, if you’ve been wondering about CCP Games current location, watch the video.)

Nalley Nissan informed us early this week that they are one of the first dealerships in the country to install four charging stations in preparation of the Nissan’s electric car: the Leaf.

Two of the charging stations will be used for “operational support”, while the other two will be located in “customer-access areas”, which local Leaf drivers will be able to freely access.  According to their press release, the charging docks will fuel a leaf for six to eight hours of driving.

Nalley says that 100 Leafs (Leaves?) have been reserved locally.  And even though it seems like folks have been talking about this car for many months now, they actually won’t be rolling out until December.

If you think about it, though the sheer number of gas stations today make gasoline-powered cars the more convenient choice currently, it’s not hard to imagine electric charging stations becoming the more available and accessible option, since they require so much less surrounding infrastructure to install and operate (stations, underground tanks, gasoline trucks, etc…).

Generic Leaf-charging photo courtesy of Plugincenter.com