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I was office and apartment hunting in 2018. I ended up moving into a freshly built apartment building with no infrastructure for charging. Five years later, tho
by mcculley 4y ago
I was office and apartment hunting in 2018. I ended up moving into a freshly built apartment building with no infrastructure for charging. Five years later, those that have electric cars compete for the few available 15 amp outlets on each parking level.
I asked each broker/property manager (residential and commercial) of new construction why they were not making accommodations for electric cars and Ubers. (Ubers are a lot more convenient where there is a portico or designated area for getting in and out and waiting for cars instead of holding up traffic in the street.) It was obvious that how people prefer to use cars is changing.
All of them told me that it was too far away to worry about.
Now they are trying to figure out how to retrofit the building for the necessary wiring and to correctly meter the tenant. Right now all of those electric cars are going against the common area usage.
Myopia seems an expected consequence of bad housing market policy.
I won't be buying an electric car until I move elsewhere.