Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by theluketaylor on Saturday September 01, 2018 @11:29PM (#17895383)

Conveniently cities have already done a huge amount of the legwork for enabling charging at street parking thanks to street lights. It will be expensive no doubt, but so was converting gas street lights to light bulbs.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by kosievdmerwe on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:24AM (#17895529)

Cars draw a lot of power vs electric lamps.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by code_duck on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:24AM (#17896161)

Street lights are currently changing from 250-1000 watt HIDs to LEDs, so they used a lot of power in the past and not much in the future.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by jacobush on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:48AM (#17896086)

It's better to have a car partly charged vs not charged at all during the night. On my morning walks in Brooklyn I noticed many cars didn't move an inch for days.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by AYBABTME on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:11PM (#17898664)

You don't need a 35kW charger to charge overnight. Low power overnight will be good enough to top off most cars' daily usage.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by pentae on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:41AM (#17895927)

So? It's about the voltage lines. They aren't running low voltage lines to power the street lights.

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