@conorsen Comparing a city to suburbs is odd 🤷‍♂️

@tommyrulznyc Progressive cities struggling to adopt EV’s seems like an important issue to address.

@conorsen The lag won’t be small either. It’s both an infra. and practical issue. Most people that have cars park on the street or in a big garage. The streets require government investment in a time of city budget struggles. The garages aren’t built out for that kind of electrical load.

@AdamSeiden Yeah, the reasons for the lag make perfect sense.

@conorsen That’s probably because only 22% of Manhattan residents own cars while 92% of Phoenix suburbanites do.

@quantian1 My point is the actual vehicles you see on the streets of Manhattan by and large aren’t EV’s.

@conorsen I also worry about what might happen after a battery fire or two in the garage of a high-rise building.

@conorsen It's hard to throw an extension cord out your window to your car parked on the street.

@conorsen Yeah but they are way ahead of the curve by having a great transit network. Majority already travel sensibly. But sure airQ will improve in Manhattan if more EVs around

@conorsen This makes a lot of sense. The case for switching gas to electric car is much stronger in places where people drive every day, vs. Places where it's just for the weekend

@conorsen the subway has run on electricity for a long time. seems more like these cities are catching up! plus, we have useful public transportation. you don't. this is much more environmental friendly. there are tons of uber Camry hybrids/EVs...

@conorsen Manhattan prefers to make as many streets as possible car free.

@conorsen Not a great analogy with Manhattan considering how many people don’t own cars and the infra issues. Not enough gas stations much less EV charging stations. Cab and limo fleets would be interesting places to start with going all EV but would not count in your use case since they…

@conorsen Manhattan has far more EV users--the subway is electric, remember--but for car EVs, yes curbside charging is going to be a slow roll

@conorsen If you own a car in NYC you are retarded

@conorsen Charging time is lost money for taxi cabs which are often operated 24/7 by drivers working shifts. For privately owned cars, charging is impossible for residents of many neighborhoods because if you don't have a driveway or a garage it is very difficult to charge up.

@conorsen Anywhere where people lack their own driveways/garages is going to hamper EV adoption

@conorsen most NYC taxis are hybrids.. thats the "smart" EV option

@conorsen how do e-bikes figure into this