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At the moment, many people who live in a terrace or flat, may find it easy to keep a fossil fuel car but hard to be able to rely on charging an EV at home. In
by ajb 3y ago
At the moment, many people who live in a terrace or flat, may find it easy to keep a fossil fuel car but hard to be able to rely on charging an EV at home. In a terrace, you can't guarantee that you can park outside your house necessarily.
Eventually, the local authority or landlord may install charging on every parking slot, but until then lots of people don't want to deal with the anxiety of not knowing if they can charge today.
- doublespanner 3y agoIs the overlap between terrace and apartment renters and new car buyers all that high anyway?
- ajb 3y agoFirstly, not all of them are rented. It will be a bit lower due to higher use of public transport and lower average income. But it represents a large fraction of car ownership (about 30% of total cars; not sure about new)
- yladiz 3y agoIn Germany, the majority of people rent apartments, so yes, depending on where you live in the world there is a large overlap.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoWhat percentage of vehicle owners use non-dedicated street parking? As you say, eventually this situation will be addressed by municipalities. So if we’re talking about the last 20-30% of customers it seems right to treat this as an edge case and deal with it last.