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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some apartments have outlets in them, this is a simple solution for those people. Not every solution will solve every problem for every person. Only a moron would expect that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha. Alright, bud. All those people with the simple solution of parking in their living room will be so pleased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah no one parks in a covered garage or in a parking structure, so it’d be impossible for those people, who live in apartments, to use this simple solution. And it would be impossible to ever get electricity to street parking. You’d have to put it on the sidewalk or something. Oh, I mean, in your living room, because I’m the moron here. Thanks for the great discussion, genius.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm loving your solutions. Do you know what they call covered garages and parking structures with outlets and even your big brain idea of sidewalks with electrical outlets in them? They call those things INFRASTRUCTURE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should be loving the fact that this simple solution exists instead of being a random asshole cynic about it, yeah. The infrastructure is in place already for a lot of people to use this as a solution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My dude, the comment at the top of this thread is stating that there isn't enough infrastructure to support most people buying electric cars. Sure, there's some infrastructure for some people to be able to charge their cars but its a significant barrier for many and an impediment to widespread adoption, causing a decrease in demand. You know, relevant information regarding the original post.

"But some people can charge their cars" is irrelevant when so many can't, because of infrastructure.

This word has lost all meaning for me. Infrastructure infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok you win the argument. Some people who live in apartments officially CANNOT charge their cars using a regular level 1 outlet because cantsurf cannot charge his car on the street.

Let it be known far and wide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're close, but you've still missed. My opinion (and I'm agreeing with the guy at the top of this thread) is that charging an electric car is impractical for such a large proportion of the population that it is slowing down electric vehicle adoption and that mass adoption is unlikely to occur until this infrastructure issue has been addressed.

And also that I can't charge my car on the street.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn’t miss your point, I dismissed it as irrelevant to what I was bringing up to the person I was responding to. Not everyone knows what “level 1 charging” means. I wanted to let them know it means a regular outlet. For whomever that applies, I hope they find it helpful. For whomever that does not apply, I hope the infrastructure continues to mature to help meet their needs, as it obviously will despite your cynicism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At this point, I'm just curious to know where you live that makes you think that sidewalks have power outlets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here’s an article with pictures of a made up fantasy land where there are cars on a street and electricity on the street and the cars are somehow charging and whaaaaaaaaat https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/government-electric-car-street-funding/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Just in case you didnt read the article you linked. It says, "Research indicates that one of the main hurdles to EV adoption in the eyes of car buyers is adequate charging infrastructure."

Hahaha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha. That's great. That is some great infrastructure, which I hope is built soon, but which currently exists almost nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it would be like putting up giant wooden poles all over the country and wires running between them to somehow service hundreds of millions of individual homes, residences and buildings level impossible to get that kind of thing built. I guess we’ll never see it in our lifetimes. Time for you to fuck off now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I never even implied anything like that. Don't try to straw man me just because you're saying silly things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except ice cars already solved the problem, you dingus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, problem free ICE cars. Way to track the conversation.