On a Tesla v3 (if that's the only place you can charge, which I think is certainly becoming less of an issue), with a port near the front passenger wheel if they had located it there. Unfortunately they did not.
Seattle has been doing this on a trial basis for a year now.
Great to see, thanks for sharing that! So, US curbside charging very small but growing, while Tesla v3 posts not growing and in fact becoming an increasingly smaller fraction of total DCFC stalls.
If I back the R2 into my garage then that charge port sits right in front of my electrical panel. Perfect.
Does the curbside charging not reach to the other side of the vehicle? Have never seen one before and am genuinely curious.
). I know people are encouraged to take up two spots for those if needed, but it really does feel wrong with others waiting.
The few that we have around my area, people just ICE them out since it’s in residential parking and no one has ev’s. It’s just not in the mentality of angelenos to willingly give up a parking spot for someone else unfortunately.
Besides cable length, doesn't seem like a great idea to have the cable connector sticking out from the car into the street where it could be struck by passing traffic. I've never seen a right-angle connector on a charging cable, I guess that might be possible but you probably couldn't make it too low-profile given the variation in vehicle body contours near the charge port.
Fair point! Didn't even think of that.
I personally think they should have put it on the passenger’s side front. Then you could have pulled INTO a Supercharger parking space in the US, which is how most Americans park. Also if you were pulling a trailer you wouldn’t have to decouple every time you stop to charge.
IONNA is making good headway. They have their own network and they just bought all of Circle K’s charging network and are going to install Alpatronic chargers throughout the US.
