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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where I live, there's one charging station. And it's like 8 miles or so from my house. I've yet to see more. It's also a fairly rural area. I think we forget how much population lives outside cities.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don’t have electricity in your house??

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IDK about houses, but this would be the case for people in apartment buildings. What should you do? Not even joke about "lowering a cord from your window" because it's not guaranteed that your street parking is near your windows!

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My co-worker has an electric car and lives in an apartment without a charger. Luckily our office has a few chargers and he only needs to charge it once or twice a week. If he really needed it he could charge at a public fast charger somewhere else in town, but he tries to avoid that.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my office has a couple free chargers. It’s really not worth the fuss for me since I can charge at home and it’s a short commute but I’m happy to see there’s always a queue

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, of course, but in remote areas you very rarely have apartment buildings, as I recall.

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is not accurate. There are plenty of apartment buildings far away from commercial areas. They can be surrounded by rural areas or suburban areas (SFH zoning).

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😮 and there are no changes at such remote apartment places?

Why would there be? Electric cars are luxury items bought by people who own homes.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My entire city currently has 30 charging ports in total, half of which are either in private locations, malls, paid parking, or singular charging station spots in obscure places.

I’m not opposed to EVs at all, but the infrastructure is just not there. Not to mention the abysmal price of these