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

Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by AnthonyMouse on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:54AM (#17895803)

> I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I still can't fathom how electric cars are going to make more than a dent in NYC where most cars are stored streetside.

You're thinking about this from the wrong way around. The people who buy the first electric cars mainly don't live in places they can't charge them, they live in single family homes where they can install a charging port.

That allows enough electric cars to accumulate that the lobby for installing charging ports on city streets can form and get a few of them installed. But with more charging ports you get more people buying electric cars and so the lobby for installing even more charging ports grows, until they're all over the place.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by icc97 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:41AM (#17896071)

It raises the value of houses that have garages where you can plug your car in. I'm looking at buying a house in Belgium and it's a definite issue.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by sokoloff on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:31AM (#17896616)

How much of that is the garage (which I agree would raise the value) vs the EVSE in the garage (which can be added for under 1500€ in most cases)?

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by icc97 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:55AM (#17896674)

Just the garage. If you don't have a garage, you have to buy one apart which is about €20,000. Then you always have a trip to the car and there might still be issues with installing the EVSE.

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