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Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:29PM (#36410042)
Are your electric lines all buried? I guess if they are that would make it much more difficult. Otherwise, you have poles or something to keep the lines in the air.

I'm just amazed America has so much free parking still. People buy houses, even if they have garages, they use the garage as storage and park their car on the street. Having lived in other countries where that simply can't happen, its like this country practically gives away parking spaces for free.

Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by Marsymars on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:40PM (#36410188)
Yes, utilities are all buried. Electrical doesn’t even come from the street side of the house, it comes in from a utility corridor behind my house.

Also have a garage, but isn’t practical to park in it for various reasons, some more fixable than others. (It’s set up as a home gym which I view as essential for my health, it’s single car and parking in the driveway would block in the garage, it doesn’t have a floor drain or appropriate slope for draining which is fairly important for winter snowmelt, and it doesn’t have an automatic door opener.)

Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:13PM (#36413538)
Seattle has lots of garages like that, so much so that they no longer dig basements for new housing (lots of old garages are basically a decline to a basement with a garage door). Seattle is one of those cities that doesn't enforce parking minimums, so street parking is otherwise over prescribed by new dense housing projects going up (unlike say LA).

I don't think street parking is sustainable. We build denser, and without parking, it is eventually going to fall apart where too many people are going to be fighting it out for too few street parking.