Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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EV buyers mostly motivated by lower energy costs than climate concerns, survey finds (thedriven.io)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (12 children)

and that's totally fine, that's how you achieve mass adoption and energetic independence, make it more advantageous to use.

The main challenge for dense metropolitan areas is that inhabitants have less options to charge their car at home when they live in an apartment and park on the street.

I got pretty excited by the new curb chargers developed by RheinMetall in Germany: https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/products/e-mobility/charging-infrastructure/curb-stone-chargers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks sweet and futuristic, but it wouldn't last a week over here in the states. Some dipshit would try crushing it with their lifted diesel pickup to compensate for their tiny pp.

But then again, that can be solved with a pair of concrete bollards. One on each side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Some dipshit would try crushing it with their lifted diesel pickup to compensate for their tiny pp.

The far larger problem would be that every single charging cable would be stolen in 60 minutes or less.

But then again, that can be solved with a pair of concrete bollards. One on each side.

If they were going to be crushed it'd mostly be by EV drivers who can't fucking park. Adding bollards could make opening the charging side door pretty interesting for some models. As an example if there were bollards in the setup in the picture then you'd be entirely unable to open the right rear door of the vehicle. For vehicles who have their charging port on the front ahead of the drivers door the driver themselves may be unable to exit.

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