SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoOrange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellerstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down14
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkOrange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellerstechcrunch.comSeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd of course those expensive chargers will become bricks when the company goes out of business or just decides to stop supporting them.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoMaybe. Or maybe someone buys them out, or the landlord is given the option to flip them open for free use. The good news is it should leave the infrastructure in place.
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoHahahahaha, right, sure. Not like we don’t have plenty of current dead hardware as an example of just this issue. How about we build on knowns, rather than corporate promise fairytales?
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoOnce the infrastructure (conduit, circuit breakers, cable, etc.) is in place then swapping out the charger at the end of it is pretty much trivial.
And of course those expensive chargers will become bricks when the company goes out of business or just decides to stop supporting them.
Maybe. Or maybe someone buys them out, or the landlord is given the option to flip them open for free use. The good news is it should leave the infrastructure in place.
Hahahahaha, right, sure.
Not like we don’t have plenty of current dead hardware as an example of just this issue.
How about we build on knowns, rather than corporate promise fairytales?
Once the infrastructure (conduit, circuit breakers, cable, etc.) is in place then swapping out the charger at the end of it is pretty much trivial.