According to a new survey by Ernst & Young, 48% of new car buyers say they plan to get a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or full EV—but an unexpected adoption barrier has emerged.
And the other half will “roll smoke to own the libs”, thus maintaining balance.
While EVs are fantastic, and a needed step in the right direction. Having a good public transit system, and walkable/bikable cities and towns will do far more to help the environment.
Id love to have an EV, but I live in an apartment. And management has no intention of spending the money on adding chargers. Even if they added a few, people would just park there with their gas cars. Haven’t seen a car towed here in 2.5 years of living here.
I hope these issues can be addressed. Until then, EV ownership doesnt make sense for a huge portion of the US population.
Full EV not possible for all of the hoards of people living in apartments and town homes where you either don’t have access to install chargers or parking is in some public areas. Outside of single family homes, not really going to be practical until there are chargers in almost every parking space or you can full charge in the same time it takes to fill a gas tank.
yeah the biden adim really missed the point with all that money it set aside for build charging stations and not any part of it for apratments, or homes.
The IRA does have provisions for home electrical upgrades to accommodate electrification projects. You don’t really need a fancy fast charger at home though since you can just slow charge overnight. Better for the battery that way.
As far as apartments go, I don’t think landlords need any government handouts… Maybe there should be legislation to require X many chargers by X date for apartment complexes over X number of residents.
Well yes. I never said the IRA did, just what would be best.
No for home most people would need a level 2 charger or a second car. Which coast money to install, and is confusing for most people since level 2 charger is basically a foreign language to the.
For apartments. Yes most landlords could afford to install them but with a government offering to cover part of the cost or giving tax breaks it makes them more likely to say yes
If you live in the city and are able bodied there’s no reason to not replace your car with an ebike.
I live in the countryside and I’ve used that thing to do 40 mile round trips for appointments and groceries. If I didn’t have to deal with snow I’d ditch my car entirely.
Just be sure to wear sunscreen lol
tl;dr: the “””unexpected””” adoption barrier are publicly available charge stations.
