• Celestus@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I charged my EV overnight from an overhead garage door power socket in my apartment for years before I moved out. Never even needed public charging. Many people just don’t realize you can charge from a normal household outlet

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      4 months ago

      I’ve never had an apartment with a garage. At minimum I’d have needed a 100 ft extension cord. Probably longer, which means it’d have to be thicker. Which means more expensive.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        And I’m not sure about your apartments but at mine (and many others in my area) we can’t have anything hanging out of our windows unless it’s an AC

        If I tried an extension cord it’d be a violation of my lease

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Near all apartments around me have exclusively open-air parking, so this isn’t a viable solution for many. It’s not that the available power is inadequate, it’s non-existent.

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        4 months ago

        Y’all really need to go about asking your landlord to install chargers. There are even options where it charges you for power so he’s not out the cost

        They’ll probably ignore the request, but at this point it’s progress to plant the seed, give them the idea, show them interest is building. Your future self will thank you

        The condo my ex lives in just had a board meeting about installing chargers. It seemed like a reasonable cost and they haven’t rejected it, so it’s possible