A small share of motorists burns about a third of America’s gasoline, a study found. Switching to electric vehicles would make a huge dent in climate-warming emissions.
I’m not in the demographic of high fuel users described in the article, but I am a prime candidate for an EV. I don’t drive much, prefer urban living (live close to everything, shorter drives), and the occasional road trip is not more than 4 hours long and on city routes. The problem is charging. I live in an apartment with no chargers, and there aren’t a lot of public charges close to me in my area. If my apartment ever does install charges, I’ll have to compete with other residents. I hope they standardize chargers to be compatible with all models and have them everywhere.
While I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I would look into it and annoy your hoa or building group. While it is obviously very easy to install level 2 chargers if you have dedicated parking, even without it you can push for a few EV and handicapped spots. For you personally, if you don’t often do more than a hundred or so miles a day, any wall outlet within heavy duty extension cord range you can get acess might be enough to trickle charge while your asleep.
Also in north amarica there are three charging plugs, Chademo, which is a asian standard that is only found on older imports and is slow being deprecated, J1776/ccs, which is the open standard for the majority of chargers, and NACS, which is Tesla’s finally open own little plug shape for J1776/ccs. Because under the hood NACS uses the same charging protocol as J1776, it’s actually pretty trivial for an adapter to go from one to the other, and indeed many cars ship with one by default, even though most non Tesla charge points have both types of plugs available.
It would obviously be idea for everyone to standardize, and they did in Europe and Asia, but the reason we haven’t yet is mostly down to Tesla insisting on using a proprietary connection for a decade, then last year finally decided to open it up to other manufacturers to start a format war when the government finally stopped giving them money for building proprietary charging infrastructure. Hopefully that should have sorted itself out in the next five years or so, but until then you might need an adapter.
And it may not be workable, I don’t know how much you’ve looked into it or where you live, or how much your apartment management company sucks beyond the default, only that at a local level, the majority of the apartments that have them, have them because someone in the neighborhood spent a few dozen hours helping and annoying their building manager into makeing a small positive difference in the world. Or someone joined the city council with an agenda to mandate that all apartments had to offer them by request.
I’m not in the demographic of high fuel users described in the article, but I am a prime candidate for an EV. I don’t drive much, prefer urban living (live close to everything, shorter drives), and the occasional road trip is not more than 4 hours long and on city routes. The problem is charging. I live in an apartment with no chargers, and there aren’t a lot of public charges close to me in my area. If my apartment ever does install charges, I’ll have to compete with other residents. I hope they standardize chargers to be compatible with all models and have them everywhere.
While I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I would look into it and annoy your hoa or building group. While it is obviously very easy to install level 2 chargers if you have dedicated parking, even without it you can push for a few EV and handicapped spots. For you personally, if you don’t often do more than a hundred or so miles a day, any wall outlet within heavy duty extension cord range you can get acess might be enough to trickle charge while your asleep.
Also in north amarica there are three charging plugs, Chademo, which is a asian standard that is only found on older imports and is slow being deprecated, J1776/ccs, which is the open standard for the majority of chargers, and NACS, which is Tesla’s finally open own little plug shape for J1776/ccs. Because under the hood NACS uses the same charging protocol as J1776, it’s actually pretty trivial for an adapter to go from one to the other, and indeed many cars ship with one by default, even though most non Tesla charge points have both types of plugs available.
It would obviously be idea for everyone to standardize, and they did in Europe and Asia, but the reason we haven’t yet is mostly down to Tesla insisting on using a proprietary connection for a decade, then last year finally decided to open it up to other manufacturers to start a format war when the government finally stopped giving them money for building proprietary charging infrastructure. Hopefully that should have sorted itself out in the next five years or so, but until then you might need an adapter.
A good government map of public chargers if you haven’t seen it yet.
And it may not be workable, I don’t know how much you’ve looked into it or where you live, or how much your apartment management company sucks beyond the default, only that at a local level, the majority of the apartments that have them, have them because someone in the neighborhood spent a few dozen hours helping and annoying their building manager into makeing a small positive difference in the world. Or someone joined the city council with an agenda to mandate that all apartments had to offer them by request.