Thursday 1 September 2016

Owning an EV without private parking in the GTA

Read the following article from the Toronto Star and get back to me.

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OK, you are back and I trust you have read the article. If you haven't, in summary there is a Toronto resident who just purchased a Volt however has no private driveway and has faced numerous hurdles, including fines while attempting to charge his car while parked on the street out front of his house.

Now there is an argument that Todd should have waited to purchase a car until the infrastructure was in place and the car could meet his needs 100%. I will admit it was what I did, as bad as I wanted an electric car, I didn't make the purchase until I moved out of a downtown apartment and bought my own house with private parking in the burbs.

However on the other hand, it takes people like Todd to make the leap even when the climate is not yet 100% right and begin to force the hand of those in power to make the changes necessary, those change in this case is to address the issue of how residents without driveways in Toronto (there are a lot of them) can charge their electric vehicles legally and safely.

This is a serious problem for many potential future EV owners and it is clear from the article that the city is dragging their feet and not taking the issue seriously to a degree I was not even aware of.

I also planned to go more in depth on this with a post much further in the future, but seeing as the issue is in the news right now, lets see if we can give our leaders in Toronto a little push on Twitter to do something about it and not drag their feet and show that there are other EV owners out there that support this.

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  1. scoutniagara1 September 2016 at 14:00

    Each lamp post, has electricity. Add charging stations to the on-street parking, that allows people to charge their Evs if they have a sticker for their home area. Make them "EV parking while charging ONLY" locations. Once they're charged, the vehicle MUST be moved, or they risk being ticketed... most EVs have notification online that their vehicle is charged.

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