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It seems like electric cars necessitate garages. Basically all these problems seem to be caused by people leaving them outside unplugged overnight, which I don'
by mminer237 3y ago
It seems like electric cars necessitate garages. Basically all these problems seem to be caused by people leaving them outside unplugged overnight, which I don't know how they deal with during the summer even. I can't imagine driving a car I have to stop for an hour to publicly charge every week. I guess it would be fine if you could charge it on the street or whatever, but you would still be using a lot of power just to heat the darn thing.
- p0w3n3d 3y agothis is basically what some cities try to enforce at the moment: everyone convert to electric, without enough garage places
- infecto 3y agoWhich cities?
- LargeWu 3y agoNone of them, it's a strawman.
- iAMkenough 3y agoCities aren't writing tickets or fines if you don't decide to purchase an electric vehicle. They may choose policies that incentivize EV use to meet climate/environmental goals, but any sort of enforcement policy that mandates private citizens must purchase and drive EVs would quickly get shot down in court.
- jjav 3y ago> any sort of enforcement policy that mandates private citizens must purchase and drive EVs would quickly get shot down in court. Citation? Have any been shot down in court? There are plenty of locations that have passed laws that all new cars be EVs after year 20XX (for example 2035 in California). I suspect most of those will be reverted as overly optimistic, but for now, they are in place.
- iAMkenough 3y agoGive me a municipality that currently requires its citizens to sell their ICE vehicle and purchase an EV and I will eat my words.
- jjav 3y agoNobody has mentioned having to sell ICE cars, so that's a strawman that doesn't apply. In terms of buying, yes, if all new cars must be EVs then an EV is the only thing you will be able to buy new.
- iAMkenough 3y agoAlright, then give me a municipality that enforces "all new cars must be EVs." I'm particularly interested in the enforcement action taken if a resident purchases a new ICE vehicle in the next county or state over.
- samstave 3y agoI wish charging stations were a bus along the row of spaces with arms that rise up from the center of a parking spot to couple with the charging port of a car on the underside. Then, if its not a EV - the arm just stays down and the spot is just a flat regular spot. If that makes sense.
- itishappy 3y agoAs nice as that sounds, I don't think using expensive and high demand charging slots as dumb storage spaces makes much sense at the moment. At least until they're a lot more common.
- samstave 3y agoIt would make sense for certain areas of parking garages. Especially in car-smart places like singapore. (I have a bias on singapore, because the car market/culture there is, in my experience, rather unique. Singaporians, in my experiences (which is a decade ago) - really treat their cars/car infra with a lot more care than the US due to how expensive it is to get a car there (for good reason)... They 80%+ of the time back into their spots, their roads are clean and I dont recall seeing a dirty car in Singapore... They integrate green parking lots (vegetation growing through the X cobbles, plants on the sides of over passes - they SEEM to have a healthier relationship with the car than most)
- thomasmg 3y agoA garage is not needed, and you don't need to plug it in overnight. (My electric car is in a carport, and I only plug it in charge is below 50%.) Yes, it is inconvenient (and likely more expensive) if you can't charge the car at home, or at work. Cities have electric street lights, but curb-side EV charging is rare so far. I guess that will change. Heating the battery does need some energy, but heating the interior of the car (for the passengers) needs more. But driving needs most energy, of course. Electric cars typically have a heat pump by the way. Gas cars don't need that because they can use the waste heat of the engine, which is otherwise lost.