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by crystalmeph 1682 days ago
The only way most people can time-shift charging their electric cars to the daytime is if their parking spot at their job has a charging station. Practically, that means a very large fraction of office building parking spots will need charging stations. That sounds prohibitively expensive. Incentives can only nudge so far before you run into genuine problems of logistics.
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Building charging stations isn't that expensive, definitely not prohibitively so.
Charging stations can be installed and can make money by charging the commuters to charge their cars while they work. If the price differential between day & night is enough, it will be worthwhile for both the parking lot owner and the car owner.
Much cheaper than nuclear
charging stations for building parking don't need to be high speed, so the cost is just putting in an outlet (probably a 240 volt one)