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#NYC is poised to become the first city in the United States to mandate electric vehicle (EV) chargers in parking garages. This initiative aims to address the growing demand for EV infrastructure and is part of the city's broader strategy to promote environmental sustainability and reduce carbon emissions. The mandate will require a specific percentage of parking spaces in both new and existing garages to be equipped with EV chargers. Is this something the UK government The Labour Party should get on board with? Should all public carparks in the UK have some form of EV charging facility? Does this open up a myriad of partnership opportunities for EV infrastructure providers? Can the grid cope? Exciting times ahead peut-être. #NationalGrid #EVInfrastructure #ElectricVehicles #NewYorkCity #CarParks #EVCharging

I keep hearing more and more about this - curbside EV charging. I think it's a fantastic idea, and it certainly seems like a good way to solve the problem of where to charge up, especially if you don't have a dedicated/indoor charging spot. Kudos to Voltpost, and itselectric for making this tech available at scale. It can often be quite difficult and time consuming to find street side parking in NYC. However, when you have to pass an available spot because you need one with an available EV charger, that's going to be doubly difficult. And even more so when you have to move your EV because your charging time is up/you're penalized for overstaying your welcome, and now you have to find another spot! How can we solve that problem?

The future of EV charging isn’t locked into hard-wired stations. Sure, having more stations where people can plug in is a major plus (not to mention faster speeds), but the idea of being able to charge anywhere—literally by just plugging into a regular outlet—has way more wow factor for the average user. Recently, I had a plug-in EV, and it was great when fully charged: 300 miles of clean, fast driving. But once I hit the 100-mile mark, things got tricky. "Where’s the closest station?" "Am I really going to wait this long to charge?" "Can I even make it home?" Eventually, after some planning, I made it home. But we didn’t have an outlet in our garage—let alone a GFCI. So, what did I do? I cracked a window and plugged it into the closest indoor outlet. If it had been raining, or if there was a problem with the insulation, my family and I could have been in serious danger—not to mention the mailman! The idea of every garage having a GFCI wall mount or a hard-wired station unit installed is a bit too optimistic. Sure, new houses have them, but what about all the homes and apartments built before 1971? The future is in faster, portable chargers—no question—but they need to come with built-in safety measures. (And check out this AI-generated photo... Yikes!) #gfci #evcommunity #cleanenergy #tesla #honda #kia #hyundai

Many of today's EV charging stations sit alone in a parking lot. Or, you might find them off in the corner of a gas station lot. As more people move to EVs, however, the EV charging station landscape will change. In a new feature looking at what's next for charging station, experts speculate everything from replacing gas stations to creating massive, amenity-rich locales similar to an airport lounge. What do you see the future of EV charging looking like? https://lnkd.in/ehw7rPvv

Boston is going is going big on installing curbside EV chargers Photo: Itselectric Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it’s going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers. Boston’s “Recharge Boston: Boston’s Zero Emission Vehicle Program,” has a goal of every household being within a 10 minute walk of a public EV charging station or EV car share, so installing 250 https://lnkd.in/gTFkASSa

Curious about how EV chargers work in underground car parks? As more drivers switch to electric vehicles, the need for convenient, accessible charging options is on the rise. We've written a blog that explores the challenges and solutions of installing EV chargers in these spaces, from safety considerations to maximising efficiency. 🚗⚡ Want to learn more about how underground EV charging can benefit your building or business? Click the link: https://lnkd.in/eYZs-vfB #EVCharging #UndergroundParking #EVInfrastructure #ElectricVehicles #EVChargingSolutions

In the three years since New York City began installing curbside chargers for electric cars, demand for the spaces has boomed — both from EV owners looking for a place to plug in and from gas-engine drivers willing to risk a ticket in exchange for street parking. The 100 chargers are online 99.9% of the time with an average utilization rate of 72% in 2024. That’s an impressive feat, especially since vehicles with internal-combustion engines blocked access to the chargers 20% of the time during the program’s first 18 months. https://lnkd.in/ecqekg-V

EVIE Imagines Every Street Lamp as an Electric Vehicle Charging Station Currently, most EV owners are members of affluent households with the means and autonomy to install their own electric vehicle charger, significantly relieving concern about keeping their vehicle at the ready. But for EV adoption to reach a wider audience, the automotive industry and energy providers – alongside local and national governments – will have to invest in an EV infrastructure far more egalitarian and ubiquitous than currently available.

#NewYorkCity has a goal of being “net-zero” by 2050. No matter how people might tussle over the meaning of that phrase, it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that it’s not going to happen if there are zillions of vehicles powered by infernal combustion engines (#ICE) on its roads by then. Curbside #EVcharging may be part of the solution. The city that never sleeps began installing public curbside EV charging stations in 2021 as a way to encourage the adoption of plug-in hybrid and #electriccars. More electric vehicles mean less #airpollution, but densely populated cities like #NewYork, with its more than eight million inhabitants, face a challenge that suburban and rural communities do not. Roughly 80% of EV charging takes place at home or at work, but half of all New Yorkers do not have a particular place where they can park and plug in their cars where they live or work. The only way they can charge the vehicles the city wants them to buy is if there is curbside charging equipment available. Curbside EV Charging From FLO In 2021, the city signed an agreement with #FLO, a #Canadian company that specializes in curbside chargers, to install and maintain 100 curbside chargers for the pilot program, as well as chargers located in front of municipal buildings to charge #electricvehicles owned by the city. The installations were completed in January of 2024. The street spots for the general public cost $2.50 per hour, or $1 per hour at night, which covers both parking and charging. They are located in all five boroughs, with the majority of them in #Brooklyn. The Level 2 chargers can provide an EV with a full charge in about four to eight hours, depending on the car’s battery size, and offer an alternative to expensive private sector chargers that are concentrated in #Manhattan. Some of the parking garages that have chargers available charge as much as $25 just to allow cars inside. “If you’re going to require a massive transition for people to move towards EVs, you have to provide them access to cheap options with EV charging,” Amaiya Khardenavis, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, told #Bloomberg. “When you have a curbside charger, it just makes the economics of owning an EV much cheaper.” In the three years since New York City began installing curbside chargers for electric cars, demand for the spaces has boomed. “We expected moderate demand,” with usage rates around 15%, said Roy Rada, project manager for e-mobility innovation at Consolidated Edison. In fact, it has been “exponentially higher.” The 100 chargers that FLO installed so far are online 99.9% and the New York City Department of Transportation says the average utilisation rate across the entire system has been 72% so far in 2024.

Thanks to Auto Express for this interview. We've got a problem in the UK - residents need to apply for planning permission for a small wallbox EV charger to go on the front of their house unless they've got a driveway. This made total sense before cross-pavement channels existed as we don't want to encourage people to trail cables over pavements. But now that 40+ councils are trialling Kerbo Charge and also competitor products, it's time to change this secondary legislation so planning permission for chargers is not required IF the resident is getting a council approved EV charging channel. We need this common sense change or adoption of #EVs by the 40% without driveways risks being further slowed. Matthew Adams Bill Esterson Ian Mach Mark Constable #sustainability #netzero #climateaction #electricvehicles #urbanplanning