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Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient by stevesimmons on Sunday May 19, 2019 @04:42AM (#19952230)
On charging infrastructure, here where I live in London, a lot of the light poles now have EV charging points. They are very subtle: just a blue LED, a small black charger cover and a small Siemens logo. Everything else is inside the preexisting pole (diameter about 4 inches).

I would never have thought of doing this. But once you've seen it, it's an obvious cheap, quick and non-intrusive solution.

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Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient by zizee on Sunday May 19, 2019 @05:47AM (#19952420)
Yes, that sounds like a nice/simple/clever solution. Parking meters could also a good option for this sort of fit out.

The other obvious option is paying an extra fee at multi level car parks.

The thing I really want governments to mandate is for new apartment buildings with underground carparks to be built with provisions in place to move it way to get charging to a apartments reserved spot. With a bit of forward planning, a lot of money/effort will saved.

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Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient by greglindahl on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:58AM (#19957659)
... some places already mandate that that new construction has to have EV charging. Palo Alto is one example.
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Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient by r00fus on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:40PM (#19954130)
Is this the one deployed? https://evannex.com/blogs/news/lamp-post-charging-is-coming-...
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Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient by fxmc on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:42AM (#19958493)
These seem to be the ones deployed by Siemens: https://www.electrive.com/2018/08/16/london-siemens-ubitrici...
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