Western Europe city resident for more than 30 years. Medium sized capital. "Sunny" is what they call this place. A very large part of the parking space in the

Western Europe city resident for more than 30 years. Medium sized capital. "Sunny" is what they call this place. A very large part of the parking space in the city is underground. Almost all housing with parking space have it built under the building. Here "regular housing" is apartment buildings and there are only a few smaller areas with single-family houses. Most recent shopping malls have underground parking too. Only a handful have open surface level parking and that's the ones outside the city. Not just shopping malls, the trend for smaller supermarkets currently being built is having inside parking. As for parks... most just don't have any parking space. The two or three that do, it is indeed open surface level parking. But most parks in the city just don't have parking space. You walk there or take public transport. There is, sure, parking in the street. And this is generally a sunny city, as I said. And yet, a large part of street parking space available is under tree shade and/or under a building's shade for most of the day. A street where you can park and that is wide enough to get more sun will very likely have trees planted. So... yes, there is a lot of sun here, there's no discussing that. But the city is just not built to let parked cars get those sun rays. ---- On the other hand, yes, it's not feasible for a large part of the population to put solar panels up at home. That is undeniable. Some companies are trying to come at this from a different angle: they are promoting installing solar panels as a shared resource for the whole building. The downside is that usually you don't use it, but just sell it back to the network. But it does produce an extra source which, at the end of the day, is what counts. It may not be the best solution, but it's what you can do.