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Re:The Electric Car by Symmetry on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @09:29AM (#9884683)
I'm not sure why you'd expect that apartment owners wouldn't put chargers in their garages? I'm guessing that a metering or coin operated overnight charger wouldn't cost that much more than a normal charger. There's also the possibility of workplaces providing chargers. Mine does but we're sort of weird.

EDIT: Remember that a parking spot can easily cost over $10,000 so the extra money for a charger isn't that much.

http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/HighCost.pdf

Re:The Electric Car by justinator on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @09:39AM (#9884763)
> I'm not sure why you'd expect that apartment owners wouldn't put chargers in their garages?

I've lived in many apartments, but I've never lived in an apartment that included access to a garage. Many of the apartments I've lived in only had parking available on the street.

Re:The Electric Car by Symmetry on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:23AM (#9885070)
I guess it's a matter of density? If you've only got two or three apartments in a building street parking works but for more than that it's really not feasible. If you like living in less dense areas that's great but my sense is that most of the urbanization that's happening is at densities where street parking isn't feasible.