Same problem in Manhattan. An electric car would be great for quick trips to nearby mountains for snowboarding/hiking, but finding _any_ parking spot near home can be a nightmare, let alone having to find one near one of the few charging stations we have.

Don’t own a car in Manhattan? One can always rent an EV for road trips.

I have the same situation, I can't charge it at my apartment.

Usually, I end up just spending ~40 minutes at the local KIA dealership that has a level 3 charger.

If I had access to the office, I'd end up charging there as well.

In my apartment complex the electric utility installed about three dozen charging stations (which is massively overbuilt for how many electrics there are). It probably makes the most sense for the local utility to wire up any large parking structures and some percentage of street parking. Suburbanites can install a car charger on their property, and is not a massive expense. Also, most-if-not-all electrics can charge over 110v, it just takes forever.

There is, literally, an app for that. Dozens in fact. Plugshare and A Better Route Planner are the least bad ones.

Also many cars have a built-in POI list for charging points.

This was my issue as well until I had a home. Work had two charging spots for a 25 story building (13 story parking structure). To be honest, the spots are work were often used only by people needing to charge but I would always be scared of forgetting and making someone else's day worse.

Here in London people do run cables out of their windows (or at least from their house) to cars parked on the street. The more considerate ones will use a safety cover but I also just see cables running out of houses across the footpath to an EV.

You are literally confirming his point - we need charging stations at all parking spots.

If you own the parking spot, you can usually install a car charger.

> If you own the parking spot, you can usually install a car charger.

That's not always the case. Even in Silicon Valley, where electric cars are popular, a lot of condo HOAs will not allow chargers to be installed. They require upgrading the electrical infrastructure of the property in some cases -- most buildings cannot handle installing 10 or 20 chargers, which might all be in use at the same time. As a matter of scale, it's very different from installing a charger or two in the garage of a house.

Of course, even if that problem went away, that would still only solve the problem for people who own their parking spaces. What are renters supposed to do?

Until the infrastructure problem is solved, electric cars only really make sense for homeowners.

Yup, it needs to be city wide and nationsl effort.

Plugshare can help with that.