Robert,
Large numbers of car owners here live in apartments,and more and denser housing is being built in the city centers - no EV infrastructure is planned. Inadequate decks are planned. The urban area you live in makes a large difference. There is not broad stroke you can make about transportation options. Here in the Raleigh (Durham/Chapel Hill/Cary) "Triangle" with about a million people, not having a car means you can't really get anywhere except by cab or on foot. The bus system is abysmal, nothing else exists and the metro area is very spread out. An apartment dweller here has very few options other than to own or share a car. Bicycle culture is weak here and auto drivers are peevish. They have been talking about light rail for decades and appear no closer than ever. None of what you said applies here. I suspect the same is true form most cities in the 1/2 to 1 million population range. Maybe these don't count, but there are a lot of them. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Except for the fact that much of the population lives in Apartments > > and high roise building and have neither option. > > Who cares? They can then usually walk or take the metro to work ride a > bike or use an ICE or LNG or CNG, or hydrogen. An EV is NOT for everyone! > > The Census says about 33% do not live in single-family -detached houses, > but they generally are in urban areas and so their driving is much less. > Let's say half what the typical suburban drivers do. So now we are down > to only 16% of the transportation pie. Lets sell EV's where they make > sense and not burden EVERY EV with the issues of a few. > > > In California, many apartment dwellers with an assigned > > parking spot can now install their own charging capability, > > as long as they meet certain requirements, including accepting > liability. > > That is being passed in Maryland too until we just elected a republican > governor intent on eliminating all things green and renewable... > > Bob, WB4aPR > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141125/18d83ff2/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
