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Why can't you put chargers on the street?
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Why can't you put chargers on the street?
- twic 11y agoWe do put chargers on the street. There are a couple outside pubs i drink at. I'm not sure what would happen if you had a whole residential street wanting on-street chargers, though. At that point, we might need some new planning rules. Doesn't seem an insuperable problem, though.
- DasIch 11y agoThey take up a lot of space on a sidewalk. If all cars were electric, charging them on my street would require putting up a charger roughly every 5m on both sides of the street to charge all cars typically parking here. The same would have to happen for almost all residential streets in Berlin. Even ignoring the fact that there simply isn't enough space for chargers everywhere, it's also not practical financially.
- mikeash 11y agoChargers aren't that big. They'd take up about as much space as a parking meter. Lots of places have one parking meter per parking space.
- Bud 11y agoTrue. Although it would take a LOT of infrastructure work and expense to run power to such a large and dense network of chargers. And realistically, we'd need to meter and charge money for that power, too, so, we also need very smart charging stations. So basically a monumental infrastructure investment.
- mikeash 11y agoIt's a big investment but it's also long term. It's basically a couple of thousand dollars for each new EV sold. It's not something you have to do all at once.
- WorldMaker 11y agoNot to mention that Mitsubishi and others are working on good solutions for inductive chargers that could be mounted into the street, making the parking spot itself the charger, at which point nearly every parking spot in a city has the space to be electric (it just needs the infrastructure investment).
- louithethrid 11y agoNo cabledrum robots on the streets that roll out to meet your car halfway..