Where the Heck Are We Going to Charge All of the Electric Cars?

[MineralMan]

35. Well, the discussions here about EVs are generally

among people who could afford one if they wanted to. Living in an urban metro and always being interested in cars, I've seen the cars owned by people who park on the street. Typically, they live in apartment buildings that have no parking facilities at all. During the winter, ever snowstorm leads to people frantically trying to find a place to park so their car won't be towed away by the city. Often, they can't afford to bail the car out of the impound lot and they lose it.

Mass transit could help some, but often people work in places that take a couple of hours to get to on the bus. So, they have to have some sort of car. And the cars they can buy are mostly crapped out old cars nobody else would buy. If you look at street-parked cars for very long, you'll soon notice that many of them are running with a donut spare on one wheel. No money for a replacement tire. Blown out mufflers, noisy brakes, engines with misses that would require an overhaul to fix.

EVs won't fix that situation in any way, unfortunately. It will mean that there will be more clapped out cars with engines available, but the problem will be the same.

Those apartment buildings with no parking won't have charging stations anyhow. Many barely have reliable heat.

I'm not convinced, frankly, that the problem has a reasonable solution. Too much money would be required to create solutions. The low-income segment of society will just end up with even more problems to deal with.