Posted on 01/29/2022 7:24:56 PM PST by DoodleBob
...woe to the urbanites. Chargers built into apartment parking lots are few and far between. And as if parking in a city isn’t nightmarish enough, competition for plug-friendly street spots leaves EVs stranded from the electricity that gives them life. Could you hack into the power lines above and snake a cord into your Tesla? Sure, if you prefer your biology extra crispy....
...convincing urban dwellers to pony up for EVs is tough. Even those who have gotten over anxieties about battery ranges will find there aren’t many places to charge them....
So the goal is clear: Build more chargers. But in dense places, the eternal question is, where? And how to guarantee that they will not only be accessible, but cheap enough for anyone to use them?
Whatever the strategy, though, cracking the problem is vital if cities—and the feds—want to stick to bigger goals for improving equity, accessibility, and racial justice, which many politicians have named as priorities. After all, low-income folks can’t switch from traditional cars to electric ones until they have abundant access to affordable charging infrastructure....
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But getting buy-in from residents in those places will be critical, because communities of color have grown accustomed to “neutral or benign neglect and sometimes even directly malignant [transportation] policy decisions,” says Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, the clean transportation consultant at GreenLatinos, a nonprofit. For communities unfamiliar with EVs, who might depend on gas stations or conventional auto repair shops for jobs, the sudden appearance of chargers could look like a harbinger of gentrification, she says—a physical sign that they are being replaced.
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Going green is discriminatory.
It’s obvious that the proponents of electric vehicles don’t expect to be successful enough for the availability of charging resources to be a problem. That, or they are just ridiculously short sighted.
They will have an extremely long extension cord attached to the Electricity Fairy.
Suppose I am a dazzling urbanite?
>>communities of color have grown accustomed to “neutral or benign neglect and sometimes even directly malignant [transportation] policy decisions,
Like having electric cars forced on them by all-knowing politicians and bureaucrats?
Dem solution is simple. No car. Use public transportation.
What are you doing in a rustic setting like this?
a vill down the valley just put in 3-stations, i ask why the taxpayers are on the hook for it and NOT free-enterprise?
crickets...
Who cares?
A tesla with 24” chrome rims and low rider hydraulics might be cool
For about $300 you put an adapter on your 220 Vac line, and your car leaves home with 80% charge for your daily commute. That’s basically leaving home every morning with about 200 mile range
This will add about $50-100/month to your electric bill. What do you spend a month for gasoline?
No oil changes. No maintenance, except rotating tires. Batteries should last about 1 million miles. Why 80% instead of 100%? This maximizes battery life. If you have a longer trip planned, simply tell your car a few hours before you leave to top off; and it will do that
From there, every 200 miles or so you stop 30 minutes at a Supercharger station and spend $18-25 to top back off (depending on your charge) which is a fraction of the cost of gas
If you have solar at home; your solar can charge your car. Conversely, if there is a storm, your car can donate a programmed amount of power to power your home
The latter.
I always laugh at the EV people as i review parking in my neighborhood in philly. If the put charging stations around i would run a cord to my house. thank you. I’m sure everone else would as well.
f you have solar at home; your solar can charge your car. Conversely, if there is a storm, your car can donate a programmed amount of power to power your home>>> And if you live in the city and park several blocks from your house you have to add in the cost of 1/2 mile extension cord. and the fact that the cord will no doubt be plugged into someones house along the way.
Just wait until the homeless people start destroying all the capitalist bourgeois chargers or hacking into them.
My state charges 100’s of dollars a year to own an electric car. My guess they will raise that too.
Then, if that is your situation, then perhaps an EV may not be for you. That is perfectly fine. Nobody is putting a gun against your head and forcing you to buy one.
. But, at the same time, spreading patently false statements about EV, is pure nonsense too. For example, the 13 hour pile up back east and EV’a being stranded. An EV, unlike an ICE, does not need to power 100% of the vehicle to create heat. They utilize a very efficient Heat Pump, and can maintain a cabin temp of 72° for 5 days (where power is routed to environment control only) and still leave the car with a greater than 50 mile range afterwards. The author who wrote that article predicting an EV log jam was woefully ignorant on the subject
Absolutely believe you. And hate to admit it, can see the rationale as EV evade the gas tax the state collects on every gallon of gas that is sold. The state needs that revenue, like a junkie needs a fix
“So the goal is clear: Build more chargers. But in dense places, the eternal question is, where? And how to guarantee that they will not only be accessible, but cheap enough for anyone to use them?”
In dense places ? no concern about the safety of car being charged and the actual charger itself ?
Both could be rendered useless by morning
$20-$25 per 200 miles is not a fraction of the cost of gas. Additionally, that REQUIRES a half hour stop every 200 miles, if the charging stations are free, which adds a lot of length to your trip.
If you have solar at home; your solar can charge your car. Conversely, if there is a storm, your car can donate a programmed amount of power to power your home
An inverter on your car can do the same thing.
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