The Colonial Parking-operated garage at Bethesda Row will be adding a Tesla Supercharger station in the months ahead. Located at 4950 Elm Street, the garage will feature 12 Tesla charging posts. When activated, this location will appear on your dashboard touchscreen. Supercharger stations at properties like Bethesda Row allow Tesla owners to quickly charge their vehicle while shopping or dining.
Good to see this is happening in the Bethesda Row Parking Garage. They are eventually going to need more.
ReplyDeleteHowever, electric cars will not be widely adopted until condos and apartments put chargers in residents' parking spots, either upon move-in or by retrofit. There's a long way to go on this. As far I know, none of the new multi-level residential construction in Bethesda has indicated that they're installing chargers for residents as part of new construction. I've heard that some buildings have done charger retrofit installation for residents though. It's more expensive to do it that way, but group buys can bring the charger/installation cost down if you get the building to buy-in-bulk.
I live in a downtown Bethesda condo building that was built on the early 90’s, and the HOA has voted to pay for installation of charging stations for some of the parking spaces in our garage.
DeleteThese chargers will work well in the Bethesda Row Garage because they have connectivity via cellular. However, many charger installations in indoor garages will require that WiFi be installed there as well. Builders need to take this kind of stuff into account. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be.
ReplyDelete11:14am it does appear that new apartment buildings aren't facing the realities their buildings need to accommodate EV charging. Another missed opportunity are HVAC and common areas built for our new pandemic age.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, there needs to be accomodations for temporary Amazon and food delivery/Uber parking.
Never let reality get in the way of Utopia:
ReplyDelete"The Laurence Livermore Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy states that the current electrical generation capacity of America is 11.4 trillion kilowatt-hours. The energy used for transportation today is equivalent to 8.5 trillion kilowatt-hours of which only an infinitesimal amount is already electric. Where would the additional power come from were all cars to be electric? The same governments in charge plan for no more energy from oil, natural gas, coal, or nuclear. So, the obvious answer for all liberals is wind and solar, which currently produce a mere 0.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Where and how will we build enough solar and wind installations to keep us all driving EVs? We cannot. We have neither the economic resources nor land area to even consider this. We are already getting a preview of what will happen if our vehicles go all-electric. In the U.K., the grid is currently so unstable that EV chargers will be metered separately, which allows them to be charged and taxed at a higher rate than domestic electricity." - Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
Install enough chargers and we'll have a serious problem with the grid during peak usage.
https://principia-scientific.com/electric-vehicles-on-collision-course-with-reality/
Cars are charged during low power demand hours at night. You obviously are clueless about how the power market works. I used to work in it. You’re the one who is a washed in your own right-wing ideology who doesn’t understand reality.
DeleteAll this talk of Bethesda apartment buildings needing to wake up and install charging stations for their residents' vehicles. I don't understand. I thought the Great Down-County Apartment Building Boom was predicated on the idea that residents would live in "walkable communities," where cars would be vestigial, superfluous. Did the property developers tell untruths?
ReplyDelete1:12 doesn't know what he's talking about. There are a zillion articles on this topic for anyone interested in the subject, but the obvious answer is utilities are perfectly capable of adding capacity and grid upgrades to meet what would eventually - over the course of several decades - be a ~25% increase in demand if all vehicles were electric.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 1:30 pm: oh great, all condo owners get to pay higher HOA fees to subsidize the few owners with electric cars.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 1:12: what do you mean? Doesn't electricity come out of electric sockets in the wall? All you have to do is install charging stations, and voila, more electricity for cars. And covering the earth's land mass with wind and solar farms can't possibly destroy the planet, right?
Anonymous at 9:09 PM: Utilities are perfectly capable of passing on to consumers the costs of adding capacity and grid upgrades to meet what would eventually .. be a 25% increase in demand if all vehicles were electric. Fixed it for you. And you don't address the point that utilities will be restricted from adding electricity-generating capacity from fossil fuels, including relatively clean gas, or from nuclear, which unlike solar and wind is reliable (non-intermittent) as well as emissions free. Not to mention the problems with battery storage. The notion that a modern economy can operate based on solar and wind power is preposterous. Get ready for rolling blackouts for homes and businesses, with or without electric cars. What happened in California and Texas, and is happening across Europe, is the future. Have fun freezing in your home.
ReplyDelete1:12/7:44 did Elon Musk kick your dog or something? So much butthurt, so little knowledge.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php
ReplyDelete"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
@1:12: that article you quoted is from a site who also ran a story on 6/19/21 entitled "Most Who Took COVID Vaccines Will Be Dead By 2025". They put the word 'scientific' in their propaganda rag's name, but it is whacko and conspiracy theorist drivel.
ReplyDelete@:1:30 PM: Just to clarify, are these charging stations for everyone to share? Undoubtedly they'll need more stations over time as demand/usage increases. They should at least do a group contract for the wiring/conduits to be installed so that chargers can be added to individual parking spaces over time if residents want them.
ReplyDelete@9:06 PM: People still need their cars to get where they need to go or to get what they need to buy (from Costco, etc.). They're either going to be gas vehicles or electric vehicles. People won't get electric vehicles if they can't charge them at home. Moreover, existing electric vehicle owners won't readily move into buildings that don't have chargers.
@3:59 AM: Condo boards subsidize everything. That's reality, so don't single this out. This expenditure can probably come out of the reserves over time without making a special assessment. Furthermore, the building will become more appealing to prospective buyers which may increase resale value and offset the cost. As for your points about electricity production, I'm a firm believer in nuclear power complimented with responsible deployments of solar technology.
1:05 PM: Indeed. It's being treated as an afterthought when it needs to be considered at the outset of the design phase. Take the new residential building that will be constructed on Woodmont over by the Bethesda Metro Station - the one which the "automated" garage that will retrieve your car. Will that automated garage support electric vehicle charging? If not, then anyone with an electric vehicle won't consider living in that building. Better figure it out folks....
ReplyDelete@3:59 AM - So true, like many on the left if they need more electricity just put in more outlets. Don't tell them that electric cars, (which weigh on average 20% more than their ICE counterpart), also pay NO ROAD TAX which is added to each gallon of fuel thereby contributing to the decline of the road with extra weight yet leave it to everyone else to fix the road.
ReplyDeleteThen there is the latest plan to tax the poor, many of which, cannot afford to live close to work PLUS an exemption for EV's!
https://newstalk870.am/house-dems-pushing-charge-per-mile-plan-for-drivers-in-wa-state/
Don't mention the three biggest elephants in the room which are COBALT, NICKEL & LITHIUM. I know liberals think these materials magically appear with zero environmental damage or use of fossil fuels for extraction, transportation & processing.
@11:48 AM - Regarding your support of Nuclear, (which everyone should be in favor of), the leftists won't like that because reality is not in their DNA.
Anonymous at 1:48 AM: In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, which supplies about 10% of the state's electric power, is scheduled to be shut down. Germany, which has invested heavily in wind, is also shutting down nuclear power plants. Being a firm believer in nuclear power is not going to keep you warm with morons and crazies in charge of energy.
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