It is no problem, as long as the curbside charger is near your home (and available). Most Americans don't park in their garages either - when I look around in the area, a great number of garages are either converted to living space (legally or not) or simply stacked floor to bottom with junk eh, ahem, I mean with important belongings that can't be just tossed out. (but also have no place inside the home, so they live in the garage) Whenever the city tries to get people to use their garages and driveways to park, instead of the public street (for example when a redesign of the road is needed) then there is a lot of pushback from people who cannot possibly be required to park their private property on their own property and who demand that they need public transportation infrastructure constructed in such a way that they can store their belongings on it. Hmm, what is wrong with that picture. But anyway - most EV drivers in USA have a charger installed in the garage or next to the driveway, so curbside charging is not much needed (yet). When more vehicles are exchanged for EVs, the need will rise because then the people who live in apartment buildings and other multi-tenant structures, as well as those living where no or not enough on-site parking is available, will need curbside EVSE. There are few EVSE that I know of that are constructed curb-side. One notable example is in Palo Alto. I believe that Otmar used to have a curbside charging station - not sure if that one was legal, but definitely Sven Thesen from ProjectGreenHome.org has a legal curbside EVSE installed.
Short answer - as long as you can charge overnight and close to your home, there should be little difference whether the EVSE is on your property or on the public street, as long as it is available (ie there are enough spots). That is one of the reasons that the share-vehicle system in Paris is so popular: people do not care much that there are thousands of EV waiting on every city block that they can rent by the half hour, but they are very happy with being able to reserve a car *and* a parking space from their smartphone, because there are more than double the parking spaces than vehicles (each space having a charging station that can also be used by privately owned EVs!) Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: cwa...@proxim.com Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:22 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Hand-wringing EV angst is not a real problem On 19 Nov 2014 at 13:08, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > probably eventually, a lot of curbside charging for > those who can't park on premises for whatever reason. The US tends to be more focused on suburbia, so we often forget about the Europeans who live in city houses and apartments and park their cars on the public streets. They have no garages or even dedicated private parking spaces, so they have no places to fit privately owned chargers. This is also true in some US cities, but I think fewer than in Europe. Having no way to charge at home means you have to use paid charging stations. It's just like fueling an ICEV, but it takes longer and you have to do it more often. This HAS to be a drag on EV adoption, no? David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
