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Originally Posted by Great68
For urban areas, I can see that percentage easily outselling ICE's and then some. It all depends on charging infrastructure (how quickly it's adopted into multi-unit dwellings)
I see EV's in Victoria increasing every day. I really notice an explosion of Model 3's in the last few months. This region is tiny, 90% of people here drive less than 50km a day, something like 50% drive less than 20km/day. Your typical home charge EV would more than cover most people.
I would buy one tomorrow if a decent one didn't cost nearly as much as an STI
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I have a feeling / vague memories from attending municipal public hearings that some (most?) municipalities in the Lower Mainland are already mandating newly built multi-family dwellings to include (or at least be capable of supporting) EV chargers. But of course, the bigger issue is how to retrofit them into existing buildings. Personally, I don't think it would be easy at all when the buildings aren't designed to support that kind of electricity loads in the first place.
Then again, most of us don't have a gas station right there at home in our own garages. Most of us probably don't fill up our cars at home using jerry cans either. So is it really necessary to have EV charging available at home?
BC isn't just Lower Mainland, or even the Fraser Valley, or Capital Region. I don't agree with Horgan / NDP's law to restrict new car sales to zero emission only by 2040 because I don't believe it can be implemented, both in terms of practicality and as far as timeline is concerned.