Metro Areas by Electric Vehicle(EV) Share of New Auto Registrations, 2023-2024

[JManc]

But city streets are already lined up with parked cars everywhere. That's likely never going to change in our lifetime so why not monetize parking even further with charging stations? There's already parking meters.

[homebucket]

Replace parking meters with charging poles. It's not that difficult.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by cabasse

^that's exactly what we need more of on city streets. L2 is perfect for plugging in overnight.



tesla has been profitable for the last 4 years.

that was the reason GM gave, of course, and of course they wouldn't be profitable at such an early stage. but why sell the patents to an oil company? this is the same GM that was convicted for buying up streetcar lines in cities so they could monopolize the sales of buses to replace them - and barely got a slap on the wrist for doing so.

car makers hate EVs because they're going to hurt their bottom end when it comes to consumables and maintenance.

Is Tesla profitable from selling cars? I thought they were still relying on selling credits to other car companies.

I think there's evidence that the larger automakers jumped into the EV craze a little too fast. GM is being criticized now for not focusing more on hybrids before going all in on EVs. And EVs aren't going away by any means, but I'm very skeptical that even half of all cars sold in 10 years will be EVs.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by JManc

But city streets are already lined up with parked cars everywhere. That's likely never going to change in our lifetime so why not monetize parking even further with charging stations? There's already parking meters.

But that is changing. Cities are turning parking spots into bike lanes, parklets, restaurant terraces, playgrounds, trees, neckdowns, wider sidewalks, you name it. It's always an improvement.

[Gordo]

I'm all for turning over more space to peds, open space, etc, but even Paris and Hong Kong have street parking in many places. Some of that can be equipped with EV chargers.