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> For most people most of the time charge while you sleep. Unless you're a 'garage orphan': no garage, driveway or parking pad, and have to park on the street.

> For most people most of the time charge while you sleep. Unless you're a 'garage orphan': no garage, driveway or parking pad, and have to park on the street. * https://electricautonomy.ca/news/2019-06-24/solving-the-electric-vehicle-garage-orphans-problem/ https://electricautonomy.ca/news/2019-06-24/solving-the-elec... * https://www.theenergymix.com/garage-orphans-scramble-for-charging-while-multi-unit-buildings-lag-on-installations/ https://www.theenergymix.com/garage-orphans-scramble-for-cha... Apartments (either rental, or condo ownership) may have underground parking with a few slots for charging.

Kirby64 6mo ago
Apartments are rather ideal for charging, if the infrastructure could be planned for. Parking spaces with restricted access... basically ideal for having every space with a charger. That basically leaves street parking as the last problem child, and that could be solved with lamp chargers like they do in the UK. It's all possible, it's just a matter of will in my view.
- throw0101d 6mo ago
  > Parking spaces with restricted access... basically ideal for having every space with a charger. Assuming that the landlord (or condo corp/HOA) is willing to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Also assuming there is electrical capacity. * https://www.metroev.ca/blog/ev-charger-load-management https://www.metroev.ca/blog/ev-charger-load-management
  - Kirby64 6mo ago
    > Assuming that the landlord (or condo corp/HOA) is willing to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Also assuming there is electrical capacity. Like I said, these are problems of will, not real problems. If you mandated that all newly built apartments have a L2 charger in every parking spot, it could be done. Retrofitting is much more expensive, but even that is not insurmountable.
  - theshrike79 6mo ago
    Load shedding and load management are 100% solved problems. You can even do it with pretty much purely electromechanical components with zero AI, Cloud, NFTs or blockchains =) It can be a bit better if each charger can, for example, be adjusted independently based on their total load. Even better if the cars can report their charge level to the system, it can optimise by giving more charge to the ones with the emptiest batteries first.

Kirby64 6mo ago

Apartments are rather ideal for charging, if the infrastructure could be planned for. Parking spaces with restricted access... basically ideal for having every space with a charger. That basically leaves street parking as the last problem child, and that could be solved with lamp chargers like they do in the UK. It's all possible, it's just a matter of will in my view.

throw0101d 6mo ago
> Parking spaces with restricted access... basically ideal for having every space with a charger. Assuming that the landlord (or condo corp/HOA) is willing to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Also assuming there is electrical capacity. * https://www.metroev.ca/blog/ev-charger-load-management https://www.metroev.ca/blog/ev-charger-load-management
- Kirby64 6mo ago
  > Assuming that the landlord (or condo corp/HOA) is willing to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Also assuming there is electrical capacity. Like I said, these are problems of will, not real problems. If you mandated that all newly built apartments have a L2 charger in every parking spot, it could be done. Retrofitting is much more expensive, but even that is not insurmountable.
- theshrike79 6mo ago
  Load shedding and load management are 100% solved problems. You can even do it with pretty much purely electromechanical components with zero AI, Cloud, NFTs or blockchains =) It can be a bit better if each charger can, for example, be adjusted independently based on their total load. Even better if the cars can report their charge level to the system, it can optimise by giving more charge to the ones with the emptiest batteries first.