• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    This is the same problem ICE cars faced when they were rolled out. It isn’t like there was a gas station on every corner when the Model T rolled out. As more and more EVs hit the road, charging availability will increase until we reach a point where chargers are ubiquitous. It may reach the point where every parking space has a charger.

    This is a transitional issue that will resolve itself.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Ffs, can we please please stop the car centric city? Can we please invest in public transportation, bicycle lanes everywhere, and walkable neighborhoods?

    Climate change hats this one little trick where we don’t design cities to be car dependent hellscapes, and it’s good for your (mental) health too!

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      10 months ago

      This is an article posted by the BBC, in the UK.

      Our cities are perfectly walkable, and we have public transport links.

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    10 months ago

    @boem@lemmy.world home owners would certainly charge their EVs at home, so the issue really is for those in apartment blocks. By us most apartment blocks have reserved/paid bays, so I’d imagine it must be possible to fit pop-up type chargers? I’d expect apartment blocks would have to make a plan of sorts to meet car owners halfway. After all, if you buy/rent any apartment today, it normally has electricity wired (and water piped, and often Internet connected) to the unit. Why not the same for a parking bay?

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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A big advantage of repurposing existing lampposts is that cities don’t have to dig in order to lay new cables, says Artis Markots, the chief executive of the Latvian start-up SimpleCharge, which is focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.

    Trojan Energy is a Scottish company whose chargers sit flush with the pavement, resembling miniature manhole covers from the outside.

    The UK company Nyobolt recently created Bolt-ee, a compact, ultra-rapid charger that can provide up to 300kW of DC power to charge a car within minutes.

    Fully mobile charging could be useful for people with disabilities, says Liana Cipcigan, a professor of transport electrification and smart grids at Cardiff University’s School of Engineering.

    In terms of fire risks, Mr Shivareddy says that Nyobolt has carefully designed Bolt-ee to be ultra-efficient, and thus to generate very little waste heat.

    As Prof Cipcigan says, there is much space for innovation in the EV charging market, and younger and smaller companies “could make an interesting impact on this very complex landscape”.


    The original article contains 1,108 words, the summary contains 167 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      10 months ago

      It will be interesting to know if the cables for these things can handle the load. On an individual level probable, but on larger scale?

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        10 months ago

        If we change all street lighting to the LEDs, it will save about 200-250 W per pole. That’s peanuts for the thirsty EVs.

        Why not fast charge at the existing petrol stations? I know! Convenience.

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    10 months ago

    Not looking forward to sidewalks and curbs covered in a tangle of car charger cables.