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> How am I going to charge at an apartment? Do you think they will spend millions converting every parking lot into a charger and maintaining it? I live in a c
by mabbo 4y ago
> How am I going to charge at an apartment? Do you think they will spend millions converting every parking lot into a charger and maintaining it?
I live in a condo actually. I'll tell you how: we passed laws in my province that say the condo must assist me when I decide to install a charger. Other jurisdictions are following this pattern. Also: not millions. As I said, it's relatively inexpensive to install a level 2 charger. For a 200 unit parking lot, you'd be wildly overcharged at a million dollars. And providing level 1 charging is as cheap as running extension cords from Walmart.
And hey, don't all your arguments work just a well for when electric lighting and heating first appeared? And yet somehow, all apartments today have it.
> Ugh, NIO is already doing this in China and I'm pretty sure it's cheaper.
They aren't on any real scale, and it's not cheaper overall- just massively subsidized. You know what is cheap? The ubiquitous electrical system that's already everywhere.
> Also, the government is literally spending hundreds of billions to subsidize electric car infrastructure
Source on those numbers? And what is "electric car infrastructure"? You mean the standard electric grid that's already ubiquitous? The EV subsidies are drying up quickly. Adoption of the tech is at the inflection point that the free market is handling the problems just fine.
You've decided how the world "ought to be" and don't care much that the rest of us have solved these problems just fine and have moved on.