By the way, it's a massive oversight to put the charge door on the driver's side. That presumes on-street charging will just... never happen.
And sure, there's hardly any of that in the US at present. But that'll probably change.
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nostr:npub168303eezkmd40tdp5kvpaapr5uky8s66u6uaexz5qr334ft77jrsvaf0qg The Zoe's solution of having it front and center is actually quite clever. Works for any situation. But the Zoe sadly will be discontinued...
nostr:npub168303eezkmd40tdp5kvpaapr5uky8s66u6uaexz5qr334ft77jrsvaf0qg I think on-street charging will eventually be ubiquitous in most places.
Anywhere that people park for longer periods of time—home, work, and third places like gyms, libraries, etc—and where there are already street lamps are great candidates for cheap L2 charging retrofits.
Where I live, they just fit the streetlamp with an LED bulb—yes, LED streetlamps have some problems, but they're getting better every year—and that gives those fixtures enough spare wattage for an L2 charger to be installed right inside the pole.
Of course we'll eventually need to expand beyond just adding L2 chargers to street lamps, but in a lot of urban and suburban areas it's a low-cost, high value way to get started and would give a _lot_ more people the ability to charge slowly while parked.