Hillhater said:
Remind yourself Jack,...you live in a CA bubble, fantasy land effectively !
And I've lived in Boston - and New York.
Most people do not work !....at least not in the simple 9-5, drive and park in the lot, type of working life.
Right. Some people are retired; some are in schools. Some are toddlers or in nursing homes.
But of the people that work in the US, 76% drive their cars to work alone and park them there. 9% carpool. So 85% drive to work in a car and park it there.
And of those 9-5 rs , most either use public transport
. . . in which case they don't need to charge their cars every day.
park in multistory car parks
Yep. I parked in the bottom of a 3 story parking garage at my last job. That's where the EV chargers were. The PV system (416kW) was on the roof of the next parking structure over. Again it covered all our EV needs.
city side street, or suburban side streets near metro stations...none of which will ever be covered by pv panels.
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D.C.’s Metro Transit Authority to install 12.8 MW of solar canopies
By Kelly Pickerel | July 9, 2020
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will install solar carports over surface lots and above parking garages at four rail stations in Washington, D.C., through a $50 million deal with SunPower and Goldman Sachs Renewable Power (GSRP).
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12.8mW means 37 megawatt-hours in DC in December. Which is enough to charge 7400 cars. In DC in December.
A large number of “workers” work night shifts also
Which means they can charge their cars at home via their own solar power system or via the parking-shade structure their apartment owners built.
Meanwhile most cars are running kids to school, shopping, errands, holidays/ rentals , etc
So your..... 9-5, park under a solar shade all day....car owner is very much a minor portion of cars in use.
85% of the people who commute to work.
But none of this is even worth thinking about, until someone produces an EV that the MAJORITY of folk can afford
Average cost of a car purchase in the US: $37,000
2020 Nissan Leaf: $32,000
2020 Cooper Mini E: $30,000
So that majority can buy a average priced car, or they can save some money and buy an EV. (Or buy either one used if they are really tight on money.)
