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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've seen a few. At first I thought it was just something different. After having tripped over them a couple of times, I now accidentally kick them out [/quote]

Good job!  EV's should only be for suburban people that can afford to have a garage or carport.  [/quote]

I would start with: if you get an EV, you need to figure out a way to charge it without obstructing the sidewalk.[/quote]

Yup. In DC, many, many people have parking spots and garages. buying an EV if you only have street parking seems like a real lack of forethought. Especially because most EVs are not particularly cheap and rarely available used, so the population we're talking about are not exactly hurting for cash.

Now, if EVs were more accessible to the broader population, I'd support installing charging stations on curbs to accommodate them. But as it currently stands, this would just be a convincing for people who are already extremely privileged. They can figure it out.[/quote]

If the city had more widely available fast charging stations, this would be easier to pull off as a policy. But by effectively proposing that only people with off street parking can get EVs, you’re going to ensure that the underlying situation you identify — they’re mostly owned by rich people — continues. (You actually can find used Nissan Leafs or Chevy Bolts pretty easily, and they cost around $20,000 — not super cheap, obviously, but hardly out of reach for everyone.) The solution to EV cables blocking sidewalks is better EV infrastructure, not fewer EVs.[/quote]
Unless you are willing to put up the capital to invest in charging stations in an area with extremely high real estate prices then I suggest what you are proposing is not realistic. Just as it is not the governments responsibility to build gas stations, it is not the gocernments responsibility to build EV infrastructure. However, it is the governments job to protect residents from nuisance on public right of ways. If you want better charging infrastructure, you would be better served petitioning Tesla or property developers. In the mean time people need to keep their cords off the sidewalk. 
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It's not the government's responsibility to provide charging stations, true, but it could get involved in incentivizing them, which it already does do for private owners. (I'll get a tax credit for the charging setup I installed for my EV, which we park in our driveway.) Or it could require private developers to put them in if they want permission to build. Electrify America, which is a Volkswagen spinoff, put chargers in the Walmart parking lot on Georgia Avenue -- that's the kind of thing that would help make it feasible to own an EV (which benefits all of us who breathe, since they don't emit anything while driving) without obstructing sidewalks (which also benefits us all, for obvious reasons). [/quote]
I don’t care what your excuses are. Stop making a nuisance for everyone else, especially the elderly and disabled. [/quote]

I literally said I park and charge my EV in my driveway, which means it’s only a nuisance for me and my family, and also that the city should work to make it easier for people to charge without needing to run cables across the sidewalk. What excuses are you talking about?[/quote]

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