When I think about the typical neighborhood in a Dutch city
then it is a block of about 4-6 houses "under one roof" and
only the end houses are likely to have a carport or garage,
all the houses in between have curbside parking on the street
with a (mandatory) sidewalk between their yard and the curb...
Since the houses are typically just wide enough to allow a single
car to park in front of each house, there is usually some additional
parking either adjacent (perpedicular) to the street or between
some of the blocks, which means the car is up to 100 meter from
your house.
Now *that* is actually a good place to put some EV charging in, as
frequently one of the parking spots may already be reserved for
disabled parking, so why not have one EV parking spot?
But to plug your car in without such facility is difficult if
you are not living in the corner house, because you must either
string a cord out an upstairs window to a light post near the curb
to clear the sidewalk and from there drop down to your vehicle, or
sneak it out the back door and yard via the common path behind the
houses to the parking between the blocks.
In most cases you are running a cord over common/city property
and this could lead to complaints, hopefully not to accidents
(pedestrians tripping over cords).
It won't be easy to place an outlet near the curb, as the mandatory
sidewalk is owned and maintained by the city - I guess your best bet
would be to install a weatherproof outlet on the lightposts, but I
am not very hopeful...
Color me sceptical.
BTW, here in India things are "different" as even medium voltage
transformers, distribution cables and fuses and all kinds of
power electrical stuff is sitting on sidewalks within touching
reach, sometimes with wires dangling out and in most cases with
the doors missing or hanging open... Kids just learn *not* to
mess with that stuff and occasionally a report in the newspaper
about someone electrocuted due to an accident while making a
connection for stealing electricity....
There is nobody frowning when a party is going on with some
wires strung across the floor, the bare ends pushed into a
socket on one side of the room and the two single-isolated
conductors taped together every meter, running to some equipment
at the other end of the room where it is wound around the pins of
the plug of a power strip and taped to stay and insulate, all the
while party guests manoevring over and around the wires while
walking around through the room.
Or my favorite: having chairs with steel rods folded in a square
as legs on each side, so a 1/4 inch dia rod goes from front to
back across the floor on each side of the chair, then place
these chairs on top of the single-insulated conductors with 230V
while it rains and the puddles form around the chairs....
(and no, there is no GFCI in the breaker box...)
But it sure is much easier to charge your EV here, *if* you are
running one. No time or money at the moment, but I am still
planning to take an "autorickshaw" (3-wheeled mini-taxi) and
convert it one day.
Even a souped-up Golfcart setup will do well, as the default
1-cylinder engine delivers only some 4hp in these vehicles.
They are unsafe at speeds above 40-50 km/h anyway since they
have a single front wheel. Lots of batteries between the rear
wheels will be an advantage!
Regards,
Cor van de Water
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] No ICE in 10 Years?
On 28 Sep 2010 at 15:04, Evan Tuer wrote:
> In Europe, diesel passenger cars have well over 50% market share now.
Curiously, though, I've read several people's opinions that EVs will
have an even tougher time getting established in Europe than in the US,
despite their generally greater acceptance of small and less powerful
(ICE) vehicles. The reason given is that Europeans are more apt to park
on the street and less likely to have garages, so charging at home is
more of a problem for them.
Of course that doesn't count the milk floats. ;-)
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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