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Amazingly, Europeans are as willing to put up with McCrappys just as we Americans are.  Sweden, in particular, has several of the Golden Arches restaurants dotting the country.  Well, it looks like McD’s is gonna go green in that country: in an electric way.

The McDonald’s in Sweden are built without big parking lots, just pure drive-thru, with highways having restaurants at opposite sides fed by on-off ramps.  The average parking time at these fast food oasis is about 20 minutes (they have small parking areas cars can pull into from the drive-thru).

Well, the electric grid provider (Elforsk) is teaming up with McDonald’s to install electric fast-charging posts at select restaurants nationally.  The grid provider is paying for the electric network and McDonald’s is paying for the recharge posts (painted yellow with the big M, of course).

The first one, a pilot test, will be installed at a Stockholm McD’s and will deliver 230v and 16a.  This way, the nation’s two hundred or so electric cars can charge up there and plug-in hybrids and so forth can utilize them as well.

This is part of a larger plan for Sweden to get themselves onto the European Union’s target for Renewable Directives.  The power for these charging posts, by the way, will come from the wind-power grid that Elforsk has been hurriedly building as part of that same EU directive.

This may be an interesting sign of the times.  I found out yesterday that the Taco Johns in nearby Cheyenne, Wyoming is the “test” store for the restaurant chain’s green projects.  So maybe the Golden Arches are turning green with more than just questionable meat sources.

Source: Treehugger