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Aren't food trucks licensed? Surely the municipality could've placed a power connection point when they gave out the license for a food truck location?
by crote 3y ago
Aren't food trucks licensed? Surely the municipality could've placed a power connection point when they gave out the license for a food truck location?
- rektide 3y agoI think in DC the food truck locations are first come first serve, they're just using street parking to do their thing. There's other practical challenges of deploying high power charging here. The power connection is only part of the system. How we do metering, how we get get power to the area, how we convert it are all complicated challenges. Doing it at scale would be non trivial.
- ianai 3y agoAre we really thinking food trucks need more than the 3.3-6.6kw that a typical outlet can deliver? Just make them EV chargers as those companies already exist and have the stuff figured out. No reason to run an ICE.
- c22 3y agoIt's probably different from place to place, but in my city mobile food trucks can operate on any non-residential private property with no additional permitting requirements and can operate on public streets with a permit for up to two weeks. Presumably private property can figure out their own power infrastructure and the 2-week limit on public streets would seem too short of a time for installing power to make sense.
- dabluecaboose 3y agoMost food trucks in DC are illegally parked. For example, the perennial "food court" on 7th street crossing the National Mall I don't think the DC municipality is very interested in enforcement of arbitrary HOA-style laws.