On Apr 5, 2015, at 3:40 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Renters have a hard time finding electric charging stations in their > apartment buildings. In a way, these sorts of growing pains are a good sign. It means that EV adoption is penetrating to the point that it's not just a few crazy nutjobs kludging together frankencars out of spare parts, but rather that regular people are buying and driving regular cars that just happen to be electric, _and_ they're doing them in numbers that are presenting logistical challenges that nobody has put much thought into before. Once upon a time indoor plumbing was a luxury; today, it's inconceivable to have a dwelling without it. Same thing with electric lighting, then standardized wall outlets for appliances, telephone, and so on. And, just as no apartment complex today could survive without cable / satellite / whatever TV hookups in every apartment, it won't be all that long before it's a given that every parking stall in those complexes has a plug. For that matter, adoption patterns will likely follow those of cable TV. Upscale ones will leap on it as an incentive to entice and retain tenants (for a suitable but surprisingly low fee, of course, that might or might not get folded into the rent). Midrange complexes with pretensions of being upscale will be next. Eventually, economy complexes will do it just so they don't get compared with slums. ...but, of course, that's cold comfort to the early EV adopters themselves who want to plug in at home but can't get their stupid landlord to let them. Sucks that they're going to have to move to find a landlord with a clue...but said landlord is going to be quite happy to welcome the new tenants, and the old landlord is going to have to fill that vacancy.... b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150405/2c720cdc/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
