Logistically for curbside charging, I think it'd make the most sense to install these street level chargers at places that already have street parking meters. If you do it that way, it doesn't necessarily take up additional parking space. L3 charging would certainly be fantastic if the electrical infrastructure at the location can support it, but even just L2 charging would be perfectly adequate since we're in the city. The idea is to make charge points prevalent so that people would no longer have range anxiety, and that would help boost adopt rates -- assuming EV supply can catch up to consumer demand, of course. But like you said, stepped up enforcement would be required to make sure people don't hog the spot.
In CoV at least, IMO the biggest obstacle for the transition into EVs is charging. We all know tons of people rely on overnight street parking at their residence, and there is often no way for those vehicles to access charging at home. IMO, the City has a responsibility to resolve this, but I just don't think they are actually interested in addressing these real life everyday problems that residents face. It is much easier to just pass the responsibility off, or to blanket ban natural gas use in all new builds.
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Originally Posted by Simplex123
Logistically for the City, street parking would only make sense off the main streets as parking is already quite limited, but that would only benefit the local residents of those inside streets. And like you mentioned, they would have to hire more bylaw officers to work those streets since assholes are definitely going to park there all day when they're either full or not even charging - making it not as feasible. It's much easier to offload that responsibility onto the gas station or parkade management.
Considering places where people frequent by car, it makes sense to me that they are targeting these two categories. As there are going to be more EV's on the road, they're going to be having less gas customers - and even those small stations may free up more spots for EV charging instead. Not that there are many malls/mid-sized plazas in Vancouver proper (can only count PC/Oakridge/City Square/Kingsgate for malls and King Ed/Champlain/Renfrew for plazas), but these guys would probably pony up the money themselves since EV charging attracts consumers - so there's no reason to introduce any fees to them at this point.
The City has already imposed new bylaws for new residential/commercial builds - and with anything the City owns, it will hopefully be funded by the fees that they will be be collecting from this.
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