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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] _druid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I hope there's a pet store near the walmart so I can look at kittens and fish while my car charges slower than it would at home.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Makes you wonder why grocery stores don't already offer this? Many of them already have gas stations and a store app and massive parking lots. Seems like it would be an easy way to get additional revenue while providing a service people would use at a location they're going to be at anyway.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

There’s a local grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard in MA that has covered a large part of their parking lot with solar panels and has a handful of EV chargers in the shaded parking spaces. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I went somewhere that had a setup like that, shaded parking with solar panels ontop, and they had level 2 EV chargers, but they weren't under the canopy, they were in the full sun :(

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

As long as they don't charge idle fees right away... these things can charge so fast you would have to leave mid shopping. When we stop on road trips it's usually just enough time to get out, stretch, take a piss, eat some fast food and go.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice! Fuck Walmart still, though.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

A Walmart charging network sounds great for road tripping. You can stop in, grab some snacks and go to the bathroom, and sometimes there are restaurants inside or in the parking lot.

It's still, and always will be, fuck Walmart. I wish more truck stops and travel centers would ramp up with EV chargers.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's where the cybertruckers shop at yuck!

I wish there were a scathing pejorative that rhymed with "cybertruckers."