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It seems like this could be useful for making electric cars more practical for apartment dwellers, in that a car in an open lot would stay indefinitely topped u
by crooked-v 7y ago
It seems like this could be useful for making electric cars more practical for apartment dwellers, in that a car in an open lot would stay indefinitely topped up when unattended and unplugged instead of the omnipresent worry of the battery running down.
- flukus 7y agoYeah, a lot of people inner city won't drive everyday and often only have on street parking. Or they'll be renting somewhere that has garages without charging stations. Anything that can minimize the number necessary trips to a charging station or eliminate them completely for people that only drive once or twice would a week be a big win.
- benj111 7y ago"renting somewhere that has garages" I still don't think solar panels will help in this situation.
- crooked-v 7y agoA lot of city garages have an open roof level.
- VBprogrammer 7y agoGetting those people to use a shared pool of electric cars would be a bigger win. That low utilisation means the initial environmental cost of producing the car is not amortised over nearly as many trips.
- de_watcher 7y agoYea, if you've got a 15 minutes commute then you charge your Leaf2/Zoe/Ioniq not twice a month but once in three weeks.