EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
The US tends to be more focused on suburbia, so we often forget about the
Europeans who live in city houses and apartments and park their cars on the
public streets. They have no garages or even dedicated private parking
spaces, so they have no places to fit privately owned chargers.
Having no way to charge at home means you have to use paid charging
stations. It's just like fueling an ICEV, but it takes longer and you have
to do it more often. This HAS to be a drag on EV adoption, no?
For decades, those of us in the snow belt have had free widespread
public "charging stations. They are normal 120vac outlets, installed to
plug in block heaters so our cars will start in the winter. They can be
found everywhere people park; parking lots, curbside, apartments, etc.
The other obvious candidates are parking meters. Many of them are now
electrical, and have 120vac service. It would be trivially easy to add a
standard 120vac receptacle with a weatherproof cover, that is switched
on when you put money in the meter.
I honestly think those who see the lack of EV infrastructure as an
insurmountable problem are just not thinking about it clearly.
--
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken
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Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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