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Unless you're driving more than 200mi you should be charging at home. Both for off-peak rates and because at < 10kW it does take a long time to charge.
by vvanders 10y ago
Unless you're driving more than 200mi you should be charging at home. Both for off-peak rates and because at < 10kW it does take a long time to charge.
- glogla 10y agoIf you live in suburb. If you live in an apartment and park on the street, no charging for you.
- mikeash 10y agoMany apartments are installing chargers in their parking areas now. The numbers are small, but it's just getting started. There's no reason you can't have chargers available for street parking too. It's not common yet, but it's just a matter of demand.
- greglindahl 10y agoPalo Alto has more than the average number of EVs, and has chargers at offices, public parking garages, some apartment building parking garages, and even a couple of street chargers. New construction is required to install a few chargers and a lot of conduit for future chargers.
- mikeash 10y agoGood to hear! If anyone is curious what the situation looks like, PlugShare is a fun web site to play around with: https://www.plugshare.com https://www.plugshare.com It shows just about every publicly available charger, and many private ones as well. Each one has notes on what kind of charger it is, availability, cost, and user-submitted comments. It's really useful for EV owners, and interesting to poke around on even if you can't currently make use of them.
- greglindahl 10y agoYep. As an example, you can see that there are 137 chargers at the Facebook campus.
- mikeash 10y agoImpressive! I've never seen anything like that, alas. Good to know it exists. It might also be worth noting (to others reading the conversation, if there are any) that charging stations, while not cheap enough to just ignore, are pretty inexpensive to install. The main thing is getting power to the site. If power is already available, then it can be under $1,000 to put in a station (including buying the equipment), although of course there are many more expensive options if one wants.
- justin66 10y ago> It shows just about every publicly available charger It doesn't show any of the publicly available chargers in the state of Ohio. I don't know how many there are - I've never needed to care - but I'm pretty sure that if the local Wal-Mart has a few (and the UU church!), there are others.
- mikeash 10y agoDo you mean it doesn't show anything anywhere in Ohio? Something must be broken for you, then, because it shows me plenty. Are you just looking at it zoomed out really far? It only shows a selection of chargers until you zoom in, otherwise the whole thing would just be a sea of icons.