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rubensinclair t1_ir5857f wrote

This begs the main question I have about buying an EV. How the heck is someone supposed to charge their own vehicle at their house if they don't have a garage?

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alowe13 t1_ir5dh0c wrote

I have my own charger in my garage… but we were recently doing renovations and I didn’t have access to it for 3 months.

What we did was every 2 weeks or so we went to target and charged while doing some shopping. Both targets around us have L3(DC fast chargers) so it takes 40 minutes to go from 20% to 80% on my car.

My grocery store also has a set that’s opening in a few weeks.

It’s really not that hard if you can incorporate it into things you already need to do (groceries, shopping, mall, etc…)

JC isn’t quite there with the charging infrastructure, but it will be in the next couple years.

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dadathepanda t1_ir6jipj wrote

I've seen chargers in JC on the side of the street, Central Ave and Ogden Ave in the Heights. Downtown too

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cec772 t1_ir9ommm wrote

There are also chargers in the Newport mall parking garage. But parking itself costs 12$ for 6 hours. (Or day rate of 25$ after that) not sure if there is any kind of validation or discounted rates available. Tons of teslas parked too, think the cars are for car rental company, but the chargers look available to public and mostly empty.

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JaeDyre t1_ir58cb3 wrote

Or driveway?

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rubensinclair t1_ir5dc3k wrote

Exactly. Or do all parking spots have to be deeded moving forward?

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David-Eight t1_ir60fv4 wrote

Or the city could line the streets with chargers.

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moobycow t1_ir6uc03 wrote

This would likely be awful, narrower sidewalks, probably less parking, wires everywhere, more difficult trash pickup and a completely overloaded electrical grid.

On the plus side, maybe if they lined all the streets with chargers, they could move the grid underground.

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David-Eight t1_ir76x3q wrote

You're going to have to upgrade the grid no matter what, it's not an option.

The rest, you don't need chargers on every street. Even if everyone had an electric car they wouldn't need to charge it every night, most would only need to once a week. Maybe put them on only one side of the street, every other block, wherever is appropriate.

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iamstrugglin t1_ir7x3qx wrote

I think that should be top priority when we inevitably upgrade the grid.

Discreet ev charging ports that are metered. Though It would probably be much more expensive unfortunately.

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AsSubtleAsABrick t1_ir5pj3q wrote

How do you fill up your car with gas at your house?

We just need the infrastructure for it. Destinations will have chargers at most spots. And superchargers can get you like 200 miles in 15 minutes. Yeah, its not 5 minutes to fill up like gas, but it's not that bad. If it's on a highway grabbing a cup of coffee and using the restroom takes almost that long anyway.

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henrik_thetechie t1_ir5pysu wrote

This is yet another reason why cars should not be viewed as the ultimate transport in cities. You should not need to worry about where you park, whether you can charge at home, etc. You should just be able to walk to a transit station a few blocks from your house. Of course, this is only possible for people in JC who live near a PATH or HBLR station.

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NMS-KTG t1_ir5zwho wrote

The best EVS are those that have steel tiers and run on rails

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kevstev t1_ir5ng9q wrote

There is no requirement that you charge at home, its just more convenient to do so.

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PEPE_22 t1_ir5dhvs wrote

Need to sit at a charging station for 45 minutes somewhere. If you’re driving a ton of miles every week street parking probably isn’t a great idea at this point.

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ObiYawn t1_ir5hk5j wrote

You don't. You have to drive to a public charging station and wait 40 minutes.

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leboeufie t1_ir5jocp wrote

We need the city to partner charging station provider to start placing more charging stations around the city. It will happen, but it does seem like we’re moving slowly on something that will better improve the city’s visibility nationally and improve the life of its citizens. It’s hard to not see 4 charging stations per city block, two per each corner of a block. It will just take 5 years to get to that point.

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moobycow t1_ir5njif wrote

Can't wait until even more of our public space is given over to cars to facilitate charging them all.

I hope they figure out a better fast charging solution before all of our sidewalks are lined with charging stations.

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