Can anyone explain why there are no public chargers in New York City? So backwards !!
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Here are some of the street-side chargers in NYC:
East 67th Street between York Avenue and 1st Avenue
East 78th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue
East End Avenue between East 88th Street and East 87th Street
Fort Washington Avenue between West 164th Street and West 165th Street
West 76th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue
West 84th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue
West 93rd Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
hey I didn’t know about these, there’s just 3 of them though and in Brooklyn/Queens. You wouldn’t go out of your way to these hubs though.
People talk about NYC like it has tiny boroughs. Queens and Brooklyn are almost 3 million people EACH.
You can fit 5 Wyomings in Brooklyn
Yes, in a city of 8 million people they never bothered to install a single public charger.
But perhaps OP isn’t being specific. Maybe he means he can’t find a free 800kw DC fast charger that is available to him the moment he needs it. That could certainly be a tall order.
I’d be happy with L2 chargers on the street, where I’d pay the 6/hr for parking + a surcharge for the juice. Alas, they don’t exist.
You have to go into a garage, pay a day’s fee (cause there’s no by the hour parking… if you live around here you know that). So I don’t want to pay $70 to park.
I’ve only visited NYC 3 times. However I used to work at UCSF im San Francisco. As an employee is costs me $36 to park for 1 day. That was in 2008 and was for 1 analog parking spot. Fast forward 15 years later in a city that is many times larger you expect to be able to park a car and charge it cheaply. That may not exists for obvious reasons but I suspect if it did it would be taken by people parking and not needing to charge just to take advantage of the availability of parking in a place like New York City. Something something capitalism supply and demand.
i feel like OP thinks public chargers means they are free…
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/electric-vehicles.shtml#/map
Go to PlugShare and filter for the Flo network. There you will find some of the on-street chargers. It’s NYC though. You can find either free parking with paid charging or paid parking with free charging. Doubt you will find free parking AND charging anywhere.
Download ChargePoint or PlugShare, there are hundreds of chargers, so many the map is completely obscured unless you zoom in to the block level. If you’re looking for free parking with chargers that might be different, but that’s NYC, and why almost everyone uses the subway instead, driving a car is unnecessary.
Where do you park if you don’t park in a garage?
I live in Brooklyn. The curbside Flo charger 5 blocks from my house is why I decided I could get an ev. I can charge overnight just like if I had a driveway (live in an apartment with no parking). I can usually get one of the two spots. If I don’t get it one night, I get it the next.
There is one of these 3 blocks from my office also, and the Revel fast charger on Marcy is great for a quick stop before a long trip. The next closest public curbside charger is about another mile (10 minutes drive) from my place if for some reason I was desperate, but the Revel station is way more convenient in a pinch.
If you are afraid to have an ev in NYC: don’t be. You will always be able to charge and don’t need a parking garage to do so. The curbside Flo charger also have amazing uptime, and Revel has more fast stations planned. I have yet to come across a broken curbside one and they have an excellent record.
I have an EV and charge at curbside chargers or chargers in the municipal garage ( which has a low cost parking deal for EVs) here in Hoboken.
Thing is I have not seen Flo chargers (or anything else for that matter) in the city, but I hope they deploy more of them. Even after the congestion charge kicks in.
Wow, all the downvotes in the comments, they don’t understand.
Bro I understand your complaint though. On the surface there are chargers “everywhere”, but I definitely do not want to drive an hour through traffic, pay to enter a garage, to charge at a weak DCFC, only to have to drive back home in another hour worth of traffic. For example there are only 3 Superchargers that don’t require you to pay for parking, and one of them isn’t even in operation yet! One is at JFK, and the other one is at the southern tip of Staten Island! Holy shit! XD.
Come to Jersey bro, DCFC everywhere and you don’t have to pay for parking, even at malls lol.