% Poorly implemented (not installed in places drivers want to go) & managed (parking control does nothing to stop icing) public EVSE by ambivalent/uninterested city officials who do not drive Electric and do not want to ensure that EV parking is always available (i.e. ticket&tow an unplugged pih/EV parked in a L3/2 EV space so the driver can have convenient/closer parking) = recipe for EVSE misuse/abuse/lack-of-use.
It should be required that a contiguous chain of EVSE be established to get from city to city before any additional EVSE be installed with tax funding. Like all studies, it lacks 'all the factors' important to 'plugin drivers', and only draws opinions from the non-plugin-knowledgeable public of 'if' they would switch-to a plugin vehicle. % http://www.greenerideal.com/vehicles/0406-public-charging-stations-not-essential-faster-ev-adoption/ New Study Finds That Public Charging Stations Are Not Essential For Faster EV Adoption By DMV.com | April 6, 2015 For a long time now, the lack of publicly available charging stations has been pointed out as the biggest obstacle for electric vehicles, so supporters of the EV movement have been asking for increased investment in the public charging infrastructure, for a faster EV adoption. But, findings from a new study contradict these claims, and suggest that interest in electric cars does not depend on the existence of a charging infrastructure. According to the study conducted by researchers at Simon Fraser University, from Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, awareness of public charging has little impact on consumer demand for plug-in vehicles. “When we account for the relevant factors, our analysis suggests that the relationship between public charger awareness and plug-in electric vehicle demand is weak or nonexistent,” says professor Jonn Axsen, one of the authors of the study, named “Is awareness of public charging associated with consumer interest in plug-in electric vehicles?”. Professor Jonn Axsen, along with a group of students at Simon Fraser University published their findings based on a poll of 1,739 households in Canada, where participants were asked whether they know what kind of public charging infrastructure exists in their region and whether they are interested in buying an electric car. Based on the responses, researchers concluded that government incentive programs have a bigger impact on boosting EV demand than the number of publicly available charging stations. The study shows that in regions that have a more extensive public charging network, consumers were not particularly interested in electric cars. In British Columbia, for instance, authorities installed 500 EV charging stations in 2013, when the poll was conducted, which helped increase people’s awareness of charging infrastructure, but that did not result in increased EV sales in that region. In this Canadian province, 31% of the respondents said that they had seen at least one public charging station, compared to just 13% in the rest of the country. Rather than having access to public chargers, respondents said that they would be more interested in EVs if they had electric car chargers at home. Also, researchers say that incentives like rebates and tax credits would be more effective for encouraging consumers to buy electric vehicles than investing in installation of public charging stations. “We know that purchase rebates can spark consumer interest, and we’ve shown that home charging is important. In combination with the implementation of a Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate like California’s, these measures could be the biggest boosters of electric vehicle sales,” said Jonn Axsen ... [© greenerideal.com] ... https://www.sfu.ca/university-communications/media-releases/2015/electric-vehicles-success-not-tied-to-public-chargers.html Electric vehicles' success not tied to public chargers - Simon Fraser University Mar 11, 2015 - “This finding is particularly relevant for British Columbia, which recently ... Respondents were asked about awareness of public charging in their region, ... charger, compared to only 13 per cent of respondents in the rest of Canada ... For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Residence-EVSE-Incentives-Essential-For-Faster-EV-Adoption-tp4674914.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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)
