Purchasing an EV with street parking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

This is not legal and (if they ever get their stuff together) DDOT will heavily fine these drivers.

As they should. You can’t have some unsecured extension cord running down the sidewalk tripping people walking by just so you can enjoy the smugness of EV ownership. I’d unplug it and toss it back in your yard where it can’t trip someone every time I walked past your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

This is not legal and (if they ever get their stuff together) DDOT will heavily fine these drivers.

As they should. You can’t have some unsecured extension cord running down the sidewalk tripping people walking by just so you can enjoy the smugness of EV ownership. I’d unplug it and toss it back in your yard where it can’t trip someone every time I walked past your house.

There are a few people who do this in my neighborhood- they all have one of these covering it:

https://www.discountramps.com/drop-over-cord-protector/p/DH-CR-5/?msclkid=5f72b58a32491c62cc98d4e7a4ca00eb&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=06%20Shopping%20-%20Web%20A%20-%20Cable%20Ramps%20%26%20Protectors%20-%20COMM&utm_term=4584826054743853&utm_content=Cable%20Ramps

[Anonymous]

I live in a neighborhood where this is common, and I also have an EV (but we have off-street parking and can charge that way). I think it's obnoxious, at best, to interfere with the sidewalk for charging. Ideally, the District would get around to realizing that this is becoming a problem, and would make it easier to allow residents to run charging cables underground from their property to the curb or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be somewhat of a pain if you end up without garage parking but I expect it would be very manageable.

Your car will probably have 200-250 mile range, which means for the kind of thing you are talking about you'd probably only be charging once every 3-4 weeks? And you can probably put 175-200 miles in the car in about 20 minutes-- so you get some coffee or shop at target or worst case hang out on your phone.

I agree I'd get what you want to get and it should work out fine.

yeah it would work if OP doesn't drive it a lot. 250 miles is a lot of driving if you're in the city. A lot of grocery stores have EV chargers, so they could just charge it up during their weekly shopping trip.

This is a good point. 250 miles is about what I get on a tank of gas between fill-ups and I end up covering that about every two weeks. I drive back and forth across Rock Creek Park to visit my mom (12 miles RT), drive the dogs to the dog park and the vet, drive to get groceries and go to suburban doctors, and that's about it. Useful perspective on how often one would need to charge up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

This is not legal and (if they ever get their stuff together) DDOT will heavily fine these drivers.

As they should. You can’t have some unsecured extension cord running down the sidewalk tripping people walking by just so you can enjoy the smugness of EV ownership. I’d unplug it and toss it back in your yard where it can’t trip someone every time I walked past your house.

There are a few people who do this in my neighborhood- they all have one of these covering it:

https://www.discountramps.com/drop-over-cord-protector/p/DH-CR-5/?msclkid=5f72b58a32491c62cc98d4e7a4ca00eb&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=06%20Shopping%20-%20Web%20A%20-%20Cable%20Ramps%20%26%20Protectors%20-%20COMM&utm_term=4584826054743853&utm_content=Cable%20Ramps

Just because you have a piece of flimsy cheap plastic ramp covering it doesn’t make it code, or an obstacle to people in mobility devices. It’s still a trip hazard and I’m still tossing it back in your yard if I see it. You don’t own the sidewalk and it’s not there for you to claim for your own use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

This is not legal and (if they ever get their stuff together) DDOT will heavily fine these drivers.

As they should. You can’t have some unsecured extension cord running down the sidewalk tripping people walking by just so you can enjoy the smugness of EV ownership. I’d unplug it and toss it back in your yard where it can’t trip someone every time I walked past your house.

There are a few people who do this in my neighborhood- they all have one of these covering it:

https://www.discountramps.com/drop-over-cord-protector/p/DH-CR-5/?msclkid=5f72b58a32491c62cc98d4e7a4ca00eb&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=06%20Shopping%20-%20Web%20A%20-%20Cable%20Ramps%20%26%20Protectors%20-%20COMM&utm_term=4584826054743853&utm_content=Cable%20Ramps

Just because you have a piece of flimsy cheap plastic ramp covering it doesn’t make it code, or an obstacle to people in mobility devices. It’s still a trip hazard and I’m still tossing it back in your yard if I see it. You don’t own the sidewalk and it’s not there for you to claim for your own use.

I go over these all the time with a stroller and its not an issue at all. My mom walks with a cane and also has no issue going over these. It would be more of a trip hazard to take it off and leave an exposed charging cord for people to trip over.

I think in the grand scheme of things this is pretty low on the outrage meter. I find it hard to navigate sidewalk cracks, cars parked in crosswalks, telephone poles in the middle of sidewalks, etc than these. No dog in this hunt because I don't have an electric car but seems like the type of thing that should be legal as long as you cover it/ make it not a trip hazard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

We have 2 neighbors who do this in upper NW in SFHs, but as PP points out, parking on the street is easy, and it is understood you get the spot in front of your house.

[Anonymous]

We still haven't installed a charger at out house and we've had electric cars since 2015. It's not that hard to go charge them at a quick charger or a level 2 charger as needed. You can sit in the car while it's charging. Or go grocery shopping, Mom's organic in ivy city has level 2 chargers, Walmart, as someone mentioned, there is an electric car gas station in Takoma Park... There are options. Not all are great and some have actually vanished, but it's not that hard to find a few that work for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of households in my neighborhood (in DC) where people have run cable out to the sidewalk to charge their EVs in street parking spaces, one in a rowhouse and one in a standalone house. But that depends on a neighborhood where parking is not scarce and there's a general understanding that everybody gets dibs on the space in front of their own house. It's not a situation I would count on being able to replicate in most neighborhoods.

This is not legal and (if they ever get their stuff together) DDOT will heavily fine these drivers.

As they should. You can’t have some unsecured extension cord running down the sidewalk tripping people walking by just so you can enjoy the smugness of EV ownership. I’d unplug it and toss it back in your yard where it can’t trip someone every time I walked past your house.

Smugness? Where did that come from?