Are developers supporting electric vehicles?
#1
Posted 23 October 2006 - 09:48 AM
If electric scooters and cars become more common, how will they be supported by developers? How do you meter the electricity drawn for charging, and bill the proper tenant? How can older buildings be retrofitted?
#2
Posted 23 October 2006 - 09:57 AM
I'm not sure about new buildings coming online with charging stations, however.
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#3
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:01 AM
Some developers are including lease of a Smart Car as part of the ammenity package for tenants. This also enables the developer to squeeze in an extra space since the car is so small.
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#4
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:04 AM
#5
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:11 AM
#6
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:11 AM
Good point! I'm assuming that in that case electricity is an unmetered amenity. I'd guess that charging a car would draw much more power. Do cars / scooters have normal 3-prong plugs, or some sort of special plug? If somewhere provides block-heater power, does that mean someone with an electric car drives for free?I'm sure this has been solved everywhere but in BC. Most parking spots in Canada have a plug for the block heater....
(Sorry, more questions than answers! Just something I've been thinking about lately).
#7
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:18 AM
#8
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:19 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#9
Posted 20 June 2011 - 10:18 AM
I happenned to stop at Thifty's Quadra and Cook this morning and noticed the Electric Vehicle Charging station. The service appears to be free. It uses a standard 120 volt duplex receptacle so I am not sure if this is meant for cars, scooters, or both.
#10
Posted 20 June 2011 - 11:12 AM
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Posted 20 June 2011 - 01:09 PM
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#12
Posted 17 September 2015 - 08:43 AM
Bosa'a Encore will have stalls available with a charging station ... I didn't ask if there will be an extra monthly fee associated with it or how they allocate the cost of the electricity back to you, but will next time I pop in there.
My Daughter owns a Smart EV and am very impressed with it and am looking at making the switch myself towards a Leaf.
#13
Posted 17 September 2015 - 12:55 PM
My friends live in an old apartment building and have an electric truck. Their parking spot is fairly near their balcony so the landlord just let them run a big extension cord out the door and down to their parking spot!
#14
Posted 25 March 2019 - 04:46 AM
Darker side of the electric car bonanza
While much of the developed world heads enthusiastically toward vehicles that pollute less, the celebration isn't universal. The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies two-thirds of world's cobalt, essential for EV batteries. This Central African nation chronically suffers from "natural resource curse": while "blessed" with richness in minerals, it remains among the poorest nations in the world.
In the absence of formal employment, hundreds of thousands of Congolese turn to mining. UNICEF estimates there are more than 40,000 children working in mines on jobs such as underground digging, transportation of heavy loads or washing mined cobalt in rivers.
Many adult and children workers have no modern machinery or even basic protective clothing, and the health consequences can be catastrophic. Cobalt even has disease named after it – cobalt lungs, a form of pneumonia caused by overexposure to cobalt dust that leads to permanent incapacity and in many cases, death.
Years of mining have also taken their toll on Congolese environment. Untreated waste and toxic substances pollute areas near the mines, exacerbating health problems of the locals. In addition, worrying radioactivity levels were reported in some of the mines, as southern Congo has vast deposits of not only cobalt and copper, but also uranium. In November 2018, Glencore, one of the world's leading cobalt producers, temporarily suspended sales of cobalt from its Kamoto mine due to radioactivity detected in supplies.
http://theconversati...-failure-111783
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 March 2019 - 04:46 AM.
#15
Posted 25 March 2019 - 08:27 AM
Darker side of the electric car bonanza
While much of the developed world heads enthusiastically toward vehicles that pollute less, the celebration isn't universal. The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies two-thirds of world's cobalt, essential for EV batteries. This Central African nation chronically suffers from "natural resource curse": while "blessed" with richness in minerals, it remains among the poorest nations in the world.
In the absence of formal employment, hundreds of thousands of Congolese turn to mining. UNICEF estimates there are more than 40,000 children working in mines on jobs such as underground digging, transportation of heavy loads or washing mined cobalt in rivers.
Many adult and children workers have no modern machinery or even basic protective clothing, and the health consequences can be catastrophic. Cobalt even has disease named after it – cobalt lungs, a form of pneumonia caused by overexposure to cobalt dust that leads to permanent incapacity and in many cases, death.
Years of mining have also taken their toll on Congolese environment. Untreated waste and toxic substances pollute areas near the mines, exacerbating health problems of the locals. In addition, worrying radioactivity levels were reported in some of the mines, as southern Congo has vast deposits of not only cobalt and copper, but also uranium. In November 2018, Glencore, one of the world's leading cobalt producers, temporarily suspended sales of cobalt from its Kamoto mine due to radioactivity detected in supplies.
http://theconversati...-failure-111783
Time for Ontario to step up!
https://en.wikipedia...Cobalt,_Ontario
#16
Posted 18 June 2020 - 06:45 PM
The staff report and copies of the bylaws are online: https://pub-victoria...English&Item=17
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