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> and the majority of charging is at home overnight Are there actually stats that show this? What I hear anecdotally from friends (in Berlin and other bigger
by hobofan 3y ago
> and the majority of charging is at home overnight
Are there actually stats that show this?
What I hear anecdotally from friends (in Berlin and other bigger German cities) is that in the city it is often very hard to find charging spots. The problem is that in urban areas charging at home is almost never an option, as people live in apartments and not houses. There the parking is either done curbside (with curbside charging stations near your apartment being rare), or on the rented parking spot on the apartment building property (which landlords aren't exactly rushing to modernize).
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago> Are there actually stats that show this? In general yes, I see 80% of charging at home, but you can google this as well as I can. Specifically for Berlin / inner city I don't know. A point of denser city living is to lessen the need for private car ownership. I'm also in an apartment in London. We don't have a charger, but then we don't have a car either, we don't need one here.
- tredre3 3y agoHis 80% figure is repeated a lot around the web but the source seems to be: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/spotlight-energy-efficiency/2021/04/18/electric-vehicle-chargers-the-basics/23564 https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/spotli... Which is interesting because only 55% of dwellings in Canada are single-family homes or semi detached condos (where you'd be able to have a home charger). Just goes to show that as EV adoption goes up, the percentage of people able to charge at home will go down.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoNo-one is disputing the growing demand for charging infrastructure, or the unsolved problems in street-side or apartment parking-lot charging. That's not motorways though. It's not the same thing.