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Re:Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey by robmcm on Monday April 14, 2014 @04:26AM (#7585073)
I live in London and this is an issue that a lot of potential EV owners.

Having seen how the councils have added "club car" spaces for car rental schemes I could see them adding charge parking spaces, potentially with free electricity.

Hopefully this will be a non issue in a few years.

Re:Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey by hellweaver666 on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:54AM (#7585652)
I live in Amsterdam, we have Electric Charge parking spots all over the city, but I believe you have to subscribe to something to use them and they probably only make up 1 in 20 spaces (which are already in very high demand in this city) so you probably also need a parking permit for the area as well.
Re:Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey by robmcm on Monday April 14, 2014 @09:59AM (#7586149)
I could see you getting free charge or subsidised in order to ramp up interest.

Could be a good incentive if you got free parking, or prime locations because you had an EV.

Re:Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey by dm2 on Monday April 14, 2014 @09:12AM (#7585900)
It's not that easy in the US, the residential areas are much less dense and parking lots are huge.
Re:Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey by robmcm on Monday April 14, 2014 @10:01AM (#7586162)
Less dense increased the chances of off street parking doesn't it?

Also I don't see how the size of a parking lot changes things, if anything it means you could incentivise by having the EV slots closer to the attraction, plus have solar roofs to harness some cheap power.