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I can't see people liking that. Charging at home works because you can sleep while it happens. Road side charging takes time away from some other part of your
by verytrivial 10y ago
I can't see people liking that. Charging at home works because you can sleep while it happens. Road side charging takes time away from some other part of your waking day. Wikipedia is saying 40 minutes for an 80% super charge for a Tesla. That's a sizable chunk of time to be loitering at some random location.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI think it would work fine. Parking meters exist for a reason - a lot of people park their cars on the street and go do whatever they came to do. You could upgrade the meters to also support payment for charging.
- arethuza 10y agoInstalling roadside charging points is the only approach that I can see working for inner cities - maybe create "charging only" zones where you can only park and charge cars - parking a normal car there getting a ticket. NB I live in central Edinburgh in a flat and there is no way we could have an electric car without some changes to the parking/charging infrastructure.
- hjnilsson 10y agoAt least here in Oslo, there are charging stations on every other street in the city center ( https://m.ladestasjoner.no/map https://m.ladestasjoner.no/map ). You need to park anyways, and parking beside a charging pole will not take any more time than just street parking in general, as the number of electric vehicles increase I would expect there to be poles everywhere. And if you live outside the center. Where there are no poles, can have a driveway with charging or use your block's parking garage.