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EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 5 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

I live in a cold climate and so my apartment stall is electrified in order to run a block heater. The way that it works here is that I am charged for power usage off of that stall outlet, but my unit has a breaker that allows me to turn it off and on. I think charging ports could operate similarly, hopefully offering some kind of smarter scheduling that allows you to only have it active when your car is in the stall and needs charging.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    And you think the apartment complexes are going to foot the bull to install that here? Every parking lot would have to be torn up to install that. Its a ridiculous assumprion.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Cutting a narrow trench so you can run electricity out to parts of the parking lot you can't get to otherwise isn't exactly a big deal. Utilities do that sort of thing all the time. We can patch parking lots - we do it all the time. Or even just put a pole and run the lines overhead. And, in many parking lots, you can just run the trench or conduit around the edge of the parking lot. You also don't need every space to be electrified, at least at first.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Why would a parking lot need to be "torn up" to add a power outlet

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