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Most people charge EVs at home most of the time.
by hdgvhicv 3mo ago
Most people charge EVs at home most of the time.
- usrnm 3mo agoIn Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings
- adrianN 3mo agoEV adoption is not uniformly distributed among the population.
- mschild 3mo agoPlus neither is house ownership. I'd say there is a decent correlation between apartment living vs house and the access to public transport. At least in Europe.
- sgt 3mo agoNot in Norway. Most people live in actual houses, whether they are detached and freestanding or attached, you still have a place for your car and therefore the opportunity install a charger.
- porridgeraisin 3mo agoThe ground floor of apartment buildings in my country (not europe, india) is almost always reserved for parking. It is mandated though not uniformly followed in my city that there be 18 parking spots for my 8 house building. We follow it, and found it really easy to install EV charging ports for each one.
- Symbiote 3mo agoI don't own a car myself, but there are public EV charging points opposite my apartment in Denmark, and some in the (small) private underground parking garage. I have rented the pay-per-minute electric cars a few times, and have always found it easy to get a discount on the next journey by leaving it plugged into a charger. This says there are over 50,000 charging points: https://eletric-vehicles.com/general/denmarks-public-ev-charging-network-reaches-50000-points/ https://eletric-vehicles.com/general/denmarks-public-ev-char...
- ffyring 3mo agoAt least in the apartments I have been living in the last couple of years you can always choose to have a charger. For older buildings in e.g. Stockholm city center there could be a lack of available parking spaces in the building.
- Markoff 3mo agoroughly 47% Danish population lives in multi-dwelling apartment blocks (53% in house properties) in Norway its roughly 25% (apartments) vs 75% (houses)
- tencentshill 3mo agoThe car sits somewhere overnight. Put a charger there.
- Markoff 3mo agonot viable solution for people in apartments, most of the cars in Prague sits on the street next to curb without any chargers nearby, I don't think there is any country which would have chargers for every car parked on street, it's always shared charger for MANY cars, which works when there are only very few EVs like right now, but once you reach certain point the only realistic solution are expensive fast chargers (which are inconvenient anyway, since it still takes much more time to refill energy for same range as ICE in same amount of time)
- tencentshill 3mo agoIn the city it's even easier. You have lamps and shops powered with 240V power on the streetside. Wires and conduit running under every street. The power infrastructure is already there. It would be like adding the power demand of a busy restaurant that uses electric stoves to each street, hardly impossible.