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As a Tesla owner this logic seems very strange to me. I hardly ever use the superchargers at a location like a mall unless I'm stopping at the mall specifically
by jmvoodoo 9y ago
As a Tesla owner this logic seems very strange to me. I hardly ever use the superchargers at a location like a mall unless I'm stopping at the mall specifically for the charging station. So it's clear to me that the mall has the supercharger to drive traffic to the mall, not because people at the mall need to charge their cars. When I'm just doing day-to-day driving I always charge at home, and don't even do so every day.
In fact, the beauty of owning an electric car for me has been the fact that my home acts as the "gas station" and I almost never need to think about charging my car elsewhere.
I think the focus, instead of being the mall or on-street parking, would be apartment buildings/multi-family homes. Having a parking spot per unit with a charger, or at least some equitable way of sharing chargers within a building, will be a necessary step to electrification.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThe economics in Europe are very different from the USA. In the US, the retailer would bite the electricity/infrastructure cost to drive traffic to their stores. In the UK, they wouldn't do that...heck, why would they even provide free parking? Instead, there would be a charge for everything, and it wouldn't be cheap (because nothing is). The same with scoring an off street parking spot, you are probably going to pay a lot for that already...
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoIn the UK, they wouldn't do that...heck, why would they even provide free parking? Nearly all out of town stores and supermarkets in the UK provide free parking.