Toronto looking for the best way to get everyone charging

This is an encouraging article that details some of the discussions about how to bring electric vehicle charging to an existing inner city area. If you live in or near the Toronto area you might want to voice you opinion at the meeting this week.

From the article:

Diane Saxe has a motion before the city’s infrastructure and environment committee next week, asking staff to come up with a plan to address the need for more expansion to EV charging stations, by allowing people to install their own options.

“Right now we’re in that transition, we don’t have a lot of public charging spots available,” said Saxe. “They are growing and they’re growing fast. My question to staff is do we have any way of letting people pay for their own charging spot, but on the street in some sort of fair and manageable way?”

Also mentioned in the article I found the term "Garage Orphans" to be an interesting concept and big part of what might be holding many people back from making the transition to Clean Energy Vehicles.

*Cara Clairman, president and CEO of non-profit Plug’n Drive, which has been pushing the adoption of electric vehicles for both environmental and climate benefits, said cities like Toronto need to look for creative ways to allow charging for what she calls “garage orphans.” *

This is a good thing! Something of a "Chicken and the egg" problem for lots of people means that they would love to buy an EV but don't have anywhere to charge. How much greater would the demand be if curbside charging were already common place?

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