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[–] 16 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Yeah EVs seem almost non-viable if you live in an apartment complex right now, which is a shame. At least where I am

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    You can literally have just a simple wall plug and charge a car. It doesn't need to be a fitted wall-mounted charging box. Yes, it is much slower and takes 24+ hours to charge the car completely but most people don't actually use much of their battery per day anyway so if you plug in every night when you get home, you're not going to have a problem for the majority of the time. And those are a very cheap socket run that an apartment's body corporate could/should install.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Theres no external outlets just out in the parking lot in my complex. You'd have to run an extension cord out a door or window all the time, which would leave them cracked, and I live on the third floor

    More progress really needs to be made on infrastructure for a lot, probably the majority of apartment complex dwellers

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    All doable.. we can route power easily enough to about any place on this planet

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    I agree :) all fixable problems, just things that will take time and will progress naturally as electric cars become more and more commonplace

    Especially once EVs start to become like a relevant part of the used market, since I think that makes up the bulk of cars at a lot of complexes. Most of the cars parked out by mine aren't new

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