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by capitol_ 1403 days ago
In Oslo where there is a significant number of EVs (30.64% of all cars) there is also a lot of charging stations on the sidewalks, you simply park your car, plug it in, and activate the charging with an app on your phone.

See https://chargemap.com/cities/oslo-NO

It's not that hard to build infrastructure to support EVs, since electricity already is everywhere in a city.
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coderenegade 1402 days ago
That's kind of the point, though. It's enough of an issue that the only way to really rectify it is to put charging stations on every sidewalk. If that's the way we go, fair enough, but it's still inaccurate to call a BEV and ICEV equivalent when solutions like this are required for a BEV to mimic certain functionality of an ICEV. BEVs certainly have their advantages, but they're not equivalent to ICEVs -- they're a different product that can meet the needs of certain (large) segments of the market, but they can't replicate the full functionality of a regular vehicle just yet.
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googlryas 1401 days ago
They can though. I guarantee you that in most large cities, almost everywhere within them, you're closer to an open and available charge point than you are to a public gas station. Putting fewer car-miles in a city is a very good thing. Especially when your car spews exhaust everywhere it goes.
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coderenegade 1401 days ago
>They can though. I guarantee you that in most large cities, almost everywhere within them, you're closer to an open and available charge point than you are to a public gas station.

Just saying "they can" doesn't make it so. I've relied on on-street parking before, as have most of the people I know. None of them would consider running a cable from their apartment to the curb to charge their car to be a practical solution, which is why the solution is for cities to make public chargers ubiquitous (see the previous comment).

Because they can't do everything that a standard car can do.

>Putting fewer car-miles in a city is a very good thing. Especially when your car spews exhaust everywhere it goes.

I don't believe anyone is arguing otherwise. But if you're arguing that having a less capable vehicle that encourages less driving is a good thing, I'd point out that a) the market is unlikely to accept that, and b) this is mostly a city design problem that is orthogonal to the type of car you drive.

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