UPDATE: Something tell me that we need to get out in Front of this Electric Vehicle Standards if we want this thing to work....

But what about these charging stations?
Won’t any old plug do?
The answer is a resounding no. When the EV business becomes big—whether you are in San Francisco or Portland—you are going to need smart features that you can only get with networked charging stations. Those features include:
1. A billing system. This allows stations to be placed curbside, in apartment lots, in condominium lots, in workplace lots and in other places where you park your car for hours. Consider this: When your local ballpark determines it needs 200 spaces capable of charging Tesla Roadsters at full rate, they’re going to need 4 Megawatts of electricity. That will cost the ballpark $400 an hour. They’re not going to give it away.
2. Smart Grid integration. Our electric grid needs to move forward. Forward means the integration of networking into the grid. That allows the utility to charge vehicles when it has an abundance of energy, and especially clean energy. It also allows you to know how much energy you’re using for your car and when, and how much it costs you.
3. High availability. This means that the network, and therefore the utility, station owners, and drivers can find stations that are working and available before they drive there for a charge. And when a station is broken it will be fixed by the network, or service will be dispatched as soon as the problem occurs.
4. User friendly features. These include the ability to find any station worldwide and find out if which ones are available for a charge. Also, notification when your car is fully charged, when it’s overdue for a charge, and when someone unplugs your car and stops it from charging. You will also appreciate reporting features, like knowing how much greenhouse gas you’re saving.
5. Time-of-use rate charging. This allows you to charge your car automatically when it is most economical.
The bottom line for the successful deployment of EV will require smart charging stations, and in order to provide a financial base and a robust feature set, those stations must be based on a networked infrastructure.

Coulomb Technologies provided this list off their website and was founded in 2007 with the express mission to ensure that anyone who is considering the choice to buy an electric vehicle will have adequate access to fuel for the cars. Visit www.coulombtech.com to learn more about Coulomb’s infrastructure plans and where you can find a local charging station.

FD: OK. Then I noticed this item on a popular EV website.
http://gas2.org/2009/04/19/car-companies-agree-on-plug-standard-for-electric-vehicles/

Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug, one has been created!

Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE, said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars.

Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, Fiat, Toyota, Mitsubishi and GM.

The three-point, 400-volt plug, which will allow electric cars to be recharged anywhere in a matter of minutes, will be unveiled Monday at the world’s biggest industrial technology fair in Hanover, northern Germany.

READ MORE AT THE LINK ABOVE.

It seems that any time a new electrical plug is needed, a German Company jumps in and makes sure there is a standard reached for manufacturing that plug in Germany, for announcement at the Hanover Faire.