Nationally, by census, exactly 2/3rds of Americans (67%) live in single family detached homes (this includes mobile homes). Presumably, every one of them can figure out a way to get 120v cord to the car.
With less than 1% of people buying EV's, I'm not too worried about the 1/3rd living in apartments until we make more progress with those who simply drive the new EV home and can plug it in immediately. We need to focus on them beacuse it is so easy. COmpared to the mountain of issues involved with multi-family housing issues (though we should also fight those batteles too, lets not let it detract from those 205,000,000 that do have outlets to plug into. In maryland, the governor's study assumed most people charge at home. Of those charging away from home, they determined that over 97% of all charging at work can be done from standard 120v outlets. Only 0.3% of the need was for interstate fast charging (that gets all the press due to gas-tank/gas-station legacy thinking which simply does not apply to commuters). Bob, Wb4APR On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > What percentage of households can charge at home? > > Today? Your guess of a bit over half might even be on the optimistic side, > considering all the apartment dwellers. > > But it's going to be very soon, I think, when anybody who owns a car is > going to expect to charge it when it's parked in its normal spot at home, > even if only at 110v. Yes, of course, landlords will balk at first -- > especially the low-rent ones. But, once enough people have EVs, not having > a place to charge it is going to mark a place as undesirable as not having > cable (etc.) TV...and, soon thereafter, as not having indoor plumbing.... > > The real challenges are going to be places like San Francisco where > everybody parks on the street and nobody even thinks to put a car in the > garage. But that city in particular is likely to lead the way in EV > adoption, so I'm sure they'll figure it out...and I rather imagine it'll > come in the form of overpriced parking meters.... > > b& > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150123/b127546a/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150124/5237bd35/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)
