One of the biggest drawbacks for electric cars is charging. I am not taking about super charging – Tesla has shown that you can go almost anywhere with an elect

One of the biggest drawbacks for electric cars is charging. I am not taking about super charging – Tesla has shown that you can go almost anywhere with an electric car. I'm taking about home charging for people who rent apartments and park in the street. For those, charging is a real problem because I do not think it is practical for them to use quick charging all the time. Quick charging is great for road trips. They give you enough power to go for another few hours while you have a break (which you should take anyways after driving for a while). Quick chargers are impractical for home charging for a couple of reasons: 1. They are going to be crowded because people will spend 40min there on average (see SF where a lot of people already do that). 2. It sucks to wait for the car to finish charging. Going to a gas pump is already annoying but charging a car for a extended amount of time is just inconvenient and impractical. Electric cars should really be charged just like mobile phones. When you get home, you plug in the car. When you leave the car is full (or at the desired charging level). This makes electric car superior because you do not have to worry about "is my tank full enough for me to get to work and to the next gas station or am I gonna be late in the office". But until we have that, electric cars are unfortunately infeasible for a lot of people who live in apartments. What we need to do is provide charging and parking solutions for them. They need to be able to park for 17+ without getting into trouble while charging. One way to do that is by providing normal charger at people's work, so that they arrive, plugin and wait until they have finished work and go home. Another interesting solution is to use the power of street lamps. A British startup is already working on that [1]. What we need IMO is to have both. Some people will charge in the streets and some will at work. But until we have that (which might take the longest because it is very expensive to install so many chargers), EVs are going to be impractical for basically anybody who does not have a garage (and incredible useful for those that do). There are also a couple of other ways, though, im not sure how feasible they are in the short term future: increase the speed of quick charging (I don't think it is possible to charge a 70kwh battery in 5min without killing it in the long term) Have the cars charge them autonomously at big charging parks at night. While this is my favorite we have yet to see when this really happens for non luxury cars (the hardware for autonomy could already increase the purchase price by many thousands of dollars and I don't know when all car manufacturers are ready – I sincerely hope Tesla will not be the only car maker to have feasible electric cars because seeing mostly Tesla would be kind of boring and kill competition sooner or later which is always bad for the consumers). [1]: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/london-street-lamps-electric-car-charging-points-ubitricity-tech-firm-hounslow-council-richmond-a7809126.html http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/london-street-lamps...