You should see the time of preparation for spring or other holiday vacations, when a large number of households retrieve their "caravan" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_trailer> from winter storage, park it along the curb, in a nearby parking slot or elsewhere near the house to clean, prepare and load it for the vacation. Many are equipped with 12V batteries and often they have combined 12V and 230V lighting, so in order to get the fridge going and see what you are doing, they need to get plugged in. This means extension cords out the mail slot (mail in most European countries is one-way and typically it is a slot in or next to the front door, so your mail lands on your door mat instead of in a box along the street) or from an upstairs window - since that will leave it suspended high in the air, above the sidewalk, or simply through the yard across the curb and plugged into the side of the "Caravan". This is similar to plugging in an RV, but then using the standard 230V household outlet in Europe.
However, it is probably better to start equipping the streets with charging points along the curb - for example on every street light... Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Ross via EV Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 4:19 PM To: EVDL Administrator; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] OT: status> the newswires are changing, (L1 CORRECTION!) This problem is solvable when there is one EV user in a 100 square mile area, or 10 square mile. When it is 50 users in a city block... You can't have that many extension cords crossing the sidewalk. For EVs to be the main mode of transportation, the cost of charging infrastructure will be very significant. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:00 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV < [email protected]> wrote: > On 24 Nov 2014 at 9:11, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > > Someone with an EV that lives in any single family detached house with > > or without a modern 120v NEC approved outdoor outlet will find a way to > > plug it in. > > Sure! The woman I bought my Comuta-Car from said that she used to drop an > extension cord from the window of her second-floor apartment to charge the > car. She also said that when she went out to her favorite pub in the > evening (she was young and single at the time), she'd run the charging cord > from the women's restroom window out to the car! > > I also knew someone years ago who lived in an apartment, and made up a wood > insert for the bedroom window so he could pass the charging cord though > without wind, rain, or snow entering. > > When I lived in a rental house, I threaded a charging cord though an > existing hole in the wall above the electrical panel in the kitchen. I had > no idea what it had previous been used for, but all I had to do was knock > out some putty that had been stuffed into the outside of it. > > So, yes, if you're truly determined to drive an EV, you'll find a way to > charge it. > > That said, I still think that if you have to go to these lengths, counting > your house as a "charging station" is perhaps a bit optimistic. But that's > OK. At least in the US, the number of accessible receptacles on houses is > still way greater than even the number of petroleum filling stations, let > alone alt-fuels'. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141124/5e13 d3f8/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
