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0 pointsvishnugupta5y ago0 comments

> The city has but up a bunch of charging parking stations on said street parking and it’s great

I noticed this in Amsterdam. Over a year period (late 2018 - late 2020), the street-parking-charging-stations went from virtually non-existent to about 2-3 in a 1KM radius and increasing.

I guess it's logistically easier to build such a charging network compared to say gas stations. They take very little space, about a square foot and ~1.5 meter tall.

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JoeAltmaier5y ago

They could replace service station charging, but you'd need an app that navigated you to one that's available. And make a reservation, so you didn't keep heading toward the nearest just to find it occupied. And if they were in interesting locations e.g. near a restaurant or shopping or bathrooms or a coffee shop.

But that sounds just like a service station.

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0 pointsvishnugupta5y ago0 comments

> The city has but up a bunch of charging parking stations on said street parking and it’s great

I noticed this in Amsterdam. Over a year period (late 2018 - late 2020), the street-parking-charging-stations went from virtually non-existent to about 2-3 in a 1KM radius and increasing.

I guess it's logistically easier to build such a charging network compared to say gas stations. They take very little space, about a square foot and ~1.5 meter tall.

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JoeAltmaier5y ago

But that sounds just like a service station.

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