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Where will all the electric cars be charged? (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If your apartment even HAS parking... Lots of blocks here get built with no plan for the associated traffic:

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2012/07/new_portland_apartment_buildin.html

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2012/09/portland_apartments_with_no_pa.html

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I live in a suburb of Portland and in an apartment. Our management is nice enough to provide a covered space (a luxury!) for a single car. I got to thinking about EV's and if all of a sudden everyone here was driving them, there would be no place to charge them, but then why not place a charger in front of each parking space? Problem solved. Then, the managers would probably assess an additional fee on top of the already high rents for monthly charging privileges.

Living in this area does have it's advantages, you can drive just a short distance to the local library and hit up the chargers, there, or go to the stores and always find an open charger or two

I get and will readily admit that most cities don't have this so I appreciate the concern over EV charging stations. I don't know much about them as I drive a dinosaur powered Honda so it's not yet in my radar. :)