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Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) by jzwinck on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:38AM (#11421375)
In London I had a neighbor with an electric car. It was parked on the street and plugged in using a long cord to its owner's building. Seemed to work ok, though it wasn't pretty. Plenty of street crime and vandals around, somehow they didn't seem to bother.
Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) by arethuza on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:53AM (#11421468)
That approach could work, but we're on the 2nd floor and with parking spaces being tight we usually don't get to park immediately outside the front door.

I'm assuming that the council will install charging stands at some point - if these had dedicated parking (and no residents parking charge!) then that would encourage people to use them.

Some properties in the street have coal holes in the road - that might an interesting place to install charging paraphernalia.

Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) by occamrazor on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:00AM (#11421895)
And illegal in many jurisdictions (I know with certainty that in Italy it is forbidden to put a power cord on the sidewalk without a permit from the city, and the cord must be covered by a rigid walkway)