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RE: EV charger placement This photo is from the new Walton Family Whole Health & Fitness parking lot. While there certainly are many EVs in #bentonville, not one single vehicle is using these chargers. I think there are two reasons: 1 - when serving a local population, nearly everyone can charge at home so they simply don't need to charge here 2 - While I haven't checked the actual cost, I'd imagine that paying at a charging station would be viewed as an "additional cost" whereas charging at home is already paid for so the cost is less visible. I don't own an EV so that's just my guess. It seems to be quite telling that charging stations need to be built close to interstate roads where people who are far from home need them. For the local population it seems like an unused and hence wasted space. This is of course specific to the US where housing tends to be single family homes with less apartments. I also wonder if there needs to be something like an Air BNB app but for loaning home power to others.

How accessible are EV charging points in London now and how might this change? 🔋🔋🔋 This week we’re looking at EVs and charging points as a key factor in property decisions. 🚨 75% of properties in London are within 5 mins of a charging point. This increases to 92% within 10 mins. This paints quite a nice picture. If you’re an EV owner or are planning on buying one - you shouldn’t have to trek too far to find a charging point 🤝 But the density of properties in London makes things more complicated for current and future EV owners. As of July 2023, there are about 175,000 EVs in London, which will increase dramatically in the next 10 years, with all new cars needing to be zero emissions by 2035. 📈 This means there needs to be huge increase in the number of charging points added to the network. 🏡 Residents of Hammersmith & Fulham, Southwark and Merton are sitting pretty with between 3-6 EV owning households on average sharing a charger. But residents in Bromley, Redbridge, Bexley and others have it much tougher, with over 100 public charging points per EV owning household. These figures don’t account for private charging points, which are the luxury of those with a drive/ garage, who are much more likely to be in the outer boroughs. 🌳 But this still illustrates a difficult problem as we transition towards a greener society. For many, this will feed into property decisions. Having visibility of this will become a more crucial component of the property search process. 🚰 Wittle’s database has all of this on tap, and can provide all the information agents need to support customers in seconds. 👋 feel free to reach out if you want to discuss the data behind this

Great article! I love the part: "I love being able to open and close the garage without having to remember my keys or the physical opener - especially since my toddler tries to steal the opener if I dare to carry it." myQ is really more than a smart gadget, it adds real value to automated garage doors and gates and can also be retrofitted very easily. Interested in myQ? Feel free to reach out for additional details! #myQ #smart #garagedoorautomation #gateautomation

EV Charging etiquette: Be the Guest, not the ghost. The "new rich" behavior seen whilst the EV drivers adapt during EV massification. The prioritisation for EV drivers among the drivers population may create abuse within the new group. How do you see this behaviour will evolve?

EV Charging: As EV drivers, we started with Range Anxiety, then lived the Queue Anxiety, and now we are experiencing Ghost Charging. It is worth considering likely human behaviour risks when planning your infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Does an EV make sense if you can't charge at home? I bought a second-hand EV, and I can't charge it at home. Was that a crazy decision? After three months, this is what I've learned about charging an EV solely on public chargers in Canberra, Australia. First, let's talk about cost. I've paid anywhere between AU$0.25 and AU$1.56 per kilowatt hour. For reference, AU$0.25 per kilowatt hour is actually cheaper than charging off the grid at home, while AU$1.56 per kilowatt hour works out to about AU$40 to drive 150 km in a small car—more expensive than a petrol car, almost certainly. My average has been around AU$0.63 per kilowatt hour, and over 1000 km, I spent about AU$130, which is probably a bit less than I would have spent on petrol. So in terms of cost, it's pretty equivalent, but it could be a lot cheaper if I was willing to sacrifice some convenience. Speaking of convenience, when I first got the car, I was living in a rented home pretty close to the city. There was a BYO cable charger at the nearby Croatian club. Great for dinner on a Friday night, by the way. It was just a two-minute walk from my place, so I could charge there all day at seven kilowatts for AU$0.40 per kilowatt hour while I worked from home, and then pick up the car in the afternoon. It was easy, cheap, and pretty much perfect. But then we moved. We bought the house so we can and will eventually install a home charger. But for now, I don't have a place I can plug it in, even to a wall outlet, without running a really long extension cable, which is not really recommended. So I've been trying to find good charge options. I can charge extremely cheaply at a BYO cable charger near the bouldering gym, but I don't go that often, and I don't stay long enough to get that much charge in. I can charge at a fast charger near work, but that is really expensive. So it's currently not very convenient at all. To get cheap charging, I need to go way out of my way, and to be honest, I don't need that extra stress and extra time out of my day. My conclusion? At the old place where I had access to a cheap slow charger nearby, it was perfect. It was hardly any different from charging at home, and way better than going to a petrol station every couple of weeks. But now it's way more hassle than it's worth, and it's making me enjoy the EV owner lifestyle a whole lot less. So, does it make sense to own an EV if you can't charge at home? I'd say, take a look at how many cheap slow chargers are near where you work or live. And if that's an option, then yes, it can work and it will be amazing. But we clearly need a lot more chargers of this type if people who rent or live in apartments are going to start buying EVs en masse.

Check out this great new piece from The Globe and Mail about what it's like to own an EV when you don't have at-home charging, featuring thoughts from our Director of Sales Engineering, Thomas Martin. The good news? It can actually be a good experience. But it's going to take continued investment in building up the number of public chargers, as well as chargers in higher-density buildings, like multifamily properties, to ensure this good experience lasts as more people start driving electric. #evcharging #electricvehicles

Explore the benefits and considerations for apartment complex owners looking to install EV chargers and enhance tenant appeal. 👍 Read More: https://bit.ly/3Xg4x5k #EV #electriccars #apartment #rentalproperty #landlords

Leading the way with EV charging station installation

Voltpost wants to bring curbside charging to a lamppost near you If you ain a single-family home, driving an electrical conveyance tin beryllium a transcendent experience. Every morning, erstwhile you aftermath up to a satellite afloat of possibilities, your car volition beryllium afloat charged and acceptable to instrumentality you wherever you request to go. EV beingness isn’t astir truthful rosy if you don’t person entree to a store oregon driveway. Many EV owners successful large cities are forced to trust connected nationalist accelerated chargers. Some radical person taken to stringing cables from their homes to the curb, which tin airs information hazards. Some cities, similar Cambridge, Mass., person formalized the practice, allowing radical to person permits to instal wheelchair-friendly cable protectors that span the sidewalk. It’s an experimentation that emulates immoderate of the convenience that single-family homeowners enjoy, but it’s a impermanent solution, astatine best. The lowly lamppost mightiness beryllium a amended option: they’re everywhere, and they person each the wiring needed to marque curbside charging seamless. One startup from New York City, Voltpost, has been moving connected a merchandise that retrofits existing thoroughfare lampposts to alteration EV charging. On Thursday, it introduced its lamppost charger aft a twelvemonth of plan and development. The instrumentality is fundamentally a shroud that covers the little portion of the pole, containing each the electronics and cables required to complaint 2 to 4 EVs astatine Level 2 speeds. It’s not accelerated charging, but it’s much than capable for astir radical to apical disconnected overnight. An illustration of the main components of Voltpost’s lamppost charger. Image Credits: Voltpost Voltpost’s charger docks astatine hand-level connected the lamppost shroud, and the retractable cablegram has an anchor eight-feet up to support it disconnected the ground. The plan is modular, the institution said, to marque repairs and upgrades easier. Charge presumption managers get entree to customized bundle that volition let them to power pricing and remotely show the devices. As is the lawsuit with conscionable astir each EV charger network, there’s an app to oversee charging sessions, including payments. Drivers tin besides usage it to reserve chargers, an absorbing twist connected “dibs” oregon “savesies” that volition surely beryllium a convenience for drivers but could origin immoderate friction among neighbors. Voltpost said its chargers are speedy to install, taking an hr to implicit the process successful a trial with the New York City Department of Transportation. It besides said that it has projects successful assorted stages of improvement and deployment successful New York, Chicago, and Detroit. T...