A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet

Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by acomjean on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:40PM (#14842968)

For those of us city dwellers with on-street parking, there doesn't seem to be much talk about getting public infrastructure to charge them. Public charging stations? I'm not sure that will help a lot.

It seems like a future for those with suburban homes. I think those in cities don't drive that much, so maybe those car bound people are a better place to start.

I guess I can get an eBike at some point.

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by dangrossman on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:02PM (#14843132)

Several cities are doing trials where they install a car charger on each street lamp. They already have power run to them after all.

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by tankerdude on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:31PM (#14843702)

Lately, they've been adding them to mall parking structures as well as at hotels and some national parks.

It's coming along, but not the best.

Personally, I'd like to spoke and hub it with an eBike for the last mile to make my footprint even smaller than with just my Leaf and solar panels.

Basically, I want a safe place to park an ebike overnight (or a scooter, or what have you), near light rail. Then take the ebike the last few miles and back from work.

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by greglindahl on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:54PM (#14843081)

There's always at least one person in every electric car thread saying "but it doesn't work for me!"

Many city dwellers who own cars don't park on the street, but it really varies by city. There are a few on-street chargers out there, maybe there will be more in the future if people advocate for them.

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by seanmcdirmid on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:02PM (#14843136)

On street parking in a biggish city sounds like a nightmare to me anyways. It's really living on the edge of street cleaning, time limits, and so on...

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by bkjelden on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:16PM (#14843251)

There's also the constant threat of break-ins.

Forgot to put your sunglasses away? Have fun replacing a window!

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