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Unless you don't have a home...if you live in any dense area in an apartment, forget about it.
by ntsplnkv2 6y ago
Unless you don't have a home...if you live in any dense area in an apartment, forget about it.
- xeromal 6y agoI actually live in a condo complex with 300 units and I get by. I just charge at the local library for free like once a week or at work.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoHow many charging stations does your library have?
- xeromal 6y ago4. The McDonald's next door also has 4. And there are paid ones in the street. It's a solid setup.
- gimmeThaBeet 6y agoI wish everywhere was like that, but anecdotally my midwest suburb experience or would-be experience is very different. The only places that have chargers are ~3 grocery stores all 15+ minutes away. Work is a surface lot nowhere near any electricity, let alone a charger. And the garage circuit in my rental house isn't even rated to support 120V charging. Being able to comfortably get an EV will either take years, or a complete change in scenery. :(
- 1958325146 6y agoI charge through a ~40 foot long 120V "extension cord" made of 10 gauge wire and plugged into an appropriately rated outlet. Which is to say, you probably could charge in your garage if you really wanted to.
- Hypx 6y agoIt's unfortunate people don't realize this doesn't scale. If everyone at your 300 unit condo had a BEV, this doesn't work.
- walrus01 6y agoIf everyone at a 300 unit condo had a BEV, the cost of bringing in new high-voltage AC service to a dedicated 480V transformer and set of chargers could be divided 300 ways and shared by the condo association/strata plan, making it affordable for all. Economies of scale.
- Hypx 6y agoGood luck retrofitting the hundreds of thousands of apartments and condominiums out there.