On the one hand, I think that ICE cars should be banned from cities, the air would be much better, and these curbside chargers look like it could help with that. On the other hand, a city filled with parked EV cars is not very different from a city filled with ICE cars. Curbside parking should be abolished or at least significantly reduced. People should just park in underground garages and walk the remaining 200m, t…
Cologne is a city with roots that reach back to the Roman empire. It has grown and developed over hundreds of years. Where would all these underground parking lots come from? Why not go a step further and demand that all roads should be put underground, too, so that pedestrians can enjoy an idle stroll on green meadors above ground without all the annoyances that come from car traffic?
I'll do you one better!
Since the cars are going to be electric, why not put charging inside the road, so that the car would charge while rolling?
In fact, we can forgo the battery entirely, making the cars lighter, by powering them through the road!
While we're at that, we could allow cars going to the same destination to link to each other to optimize traffic.
Oh, and we could also reduce rolling friction by putting these vehicles on rails.
There you go, we could do much better with underground roads on which electric vehicles roll on rails in metropolitan areas.
We could call these system metros.
Ah, if only such utopian dreams could be implemented. I guess we'll never see it in our lifetimes.