This could be how many city dwellers will be charging their vehicles in the future.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cParking, in general, should be a frictionless experience,\u201d said Juliano. And Parkway wants to make charging equally frictionless for EV owners, both those local apartment dwellers who plug in regularly, as well as shoppers and other occasional visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Companies like Amperage Capital and Parkway Corp. are betting they can turn a profit by serving as alternatives to traditional gas stations. They\u2019re also betting they can get a financial boost from the Biden administration. The president last year outlined a goal of having 500,000 charging facilities in operation across the U.S. by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Federal funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
“If you live in an apartment building, if you don’t have a garage, if you just want to be able to charge up around town … this is where the government steps in to make sure that everybody has access to this charging,\u201d U.S. Energy Department Secretary Jennifer Granholm said during the Climate Power conference earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During her appearance, the former Michigan governor announced plans for $2.5 billion in federal EV charging grants. Some of that funding will help set up a charging network in rural parts of the country. Other funds will go to help urban dwellers plug in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A variety of different options are emerging.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The City of Los Angeles is one of several experimenting with setting up street chargers. It currently operates 450 built into street lights and another 50 built into power poles. Its goal is to add another 200 annually. Similar projects could soon be underway in New York, Kansas City and several other urban communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a small but growing number of locations, including several California communities, regulators are now requiring that new housing projects incorporate chargers. The Portland City Council is considering a measure that would require that all new multi-family dwellings with five or more units have the wiring to set up chargers for at least half of their parking spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere will be a day when gas vehicles are unavailable. And we need to ensure that (urban) communities are not left out of that transition and are able to fuel their vehicles,\u201d Ingrid Fish, a planner with Portland\u2019s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability told the Council during a discussion of the plan in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than 80% of EV charging is today done at home, which is fine if you own a house. However, apartment, townhome and condo dwellers face unique challenges when it comes to charging an EV at home. Find out what’s coming to help at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240672,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240616\/revisions\/240672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240616"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=240616"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=240616"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=240616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}