• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The problem is apartments without garages or without parking lots. See San Francisco, New York, etc.

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        My understanding is that most people like that in those cities don’t have cars because mass transit there is actually quite good, and keeping a car is excessively expensive for something they’ll rarely need

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            1 year ago

            I mean, I was specifically referring to those two cities in the US because the comment I was responding to was mentioning them

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            1 year ago

            I think it’s mostly true in New York, but that’s the only city where I’ve heard that.

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          A lot of people in those cities don’t have cars, but a lot do. Especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has worse public transportation than NY.

          Speaking as someone born and raised in SF, a shit load of apartment dwellers have cars. There are so many cars that you often can’t find a parking space near your building in the residential parts of town. Honestly, the main reason people get rid of their car is because the city has hit peak car capacity. You have to spend 30-60m looking for a spot in the vicinity of home.

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          Depends on the city. That’s not true for SF.

          The parts of town with high rises are WAY easier to park in. They all have parking garages connected to the building. It’s places like the Haight and the Mission that are terrible - mostly residential neighborhoods with 2 story single family homes. Maybe a few 3 story apartment buildings.

          Many were converted into apartments and may have even had garages converted into a living space. So now you have neighborhoods with homes that were originally designed to hold 1 or 2 cars, but now they have 3 or more cars - and they may not even have a garage anymore.

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        1 year ago

        Did this for 3 years with a daily commute to a different state - ~13h of charging a day on 120v was far more than enough. Obviously I’m lucky enough to have a outdoor plug available to the car area but if you do it’s completely doable.

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          1 year ago

          Same. I got about 2 miles of range per hour of charging on 120V, and my office was only 9 miles away. Easy peasy.

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            1 year ago

            Even that seems low unless it’s a giant truck, my Chevy volt can charge at like 4mph on 120V, and I think I have the charging rate reduced to not test my house’s 60 year old wiring.

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        1 year ago

        Unless you use most of the charge during the same day, it is quite doable.
        Sure the charge is slow, but you can plug it in the evening and let it charge during the night, like you’d do for a smartphone.
        Depending on the capacity you may not get a full charge, but it is enough for most uses. If it charges enough for what you’ll do during the day, it isn’t a problem at all.