Am 12.07.19 um 22:38 schrieb Paul Stenquist:
DC electric vehicle chargers that operate on solar power are on the near horizon.
All this is good and well for people living in the suburbs or the countryside. But what about us city dwellers? Most people in Europe live in urban appartments and we have no roof to put our PV systems and no garages or driveways to charge our cars. We can't just dangle a cable out of a window on the 3rd floor because that would require finding a spot for parking below said window. Might work once every two or three years... I'm afraid our future will be one without owning cars. We already have a number of car-sharing companies around and they look like the solution for the mid-term future. I've had a look at their prices and they'd be acceptable if I restricted my driving to the bare minimum, i.e. no more shopping trips to neighbouring Belgium and no more leisurely drive across the countryside. Then again, sooner than later we won't be able to afford any of this. They're currently discussing a CO2 tax that would double or triple our fuel prices and that would be the end of it anyway. Being from a generation that has grown up with cars and individual mobility, I'll be 65 in a few weeks and I must say the idea that I won't be around in 10 or 20 years has lost a lot of its horror recently. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
