Wait a minute, it's Germany, don't y'all already have 220V/240V/whatever it takes? In which case, yeah, I guess you could just plug into an outlet and charge just as quickly as I do in my American garage with its special charger because our outlets are 110V.
Actually, we have up to 400V/60A for stoves and charging cars, or as main line for your apartment. But if you rent an apartment, you won't have that at your parking space.
The only one predicting anything is you, Captain Pedantic. Parent used the present tense, which I take to mean that if I look for an apartment today in Germany, I won’t find an apartment with a charger. Tomorrow? Who knows, no one was talking about tomorrow. On top of that, speaking from a German perspective, odds are that English is a second language. But you go right ahead and pick apart that sentence for something to criticize.
http://www.lenntech.com/processes/disinfection/regulation-eu...
While some countries moved away from permanent chlorination, it is still widely used, either as a permanent (all the way to the faucet) or punctual (just in the treatment facility) water disinfection solution.
The UK, for example, uses permanent chlorination.
So depending where you live, maybe its time to find all tap water gross.
Pretty sure I'm right in saying they don't flouridate the water either.
The downside is that it requires a highly precise tuning and maintenance of the water systems to avoid any contamination downstream. Most countries don't seem to have the discipline to do so (US for example).
But they do fluoridate the water, depending on the country and region.
Water fluoridation's positive impact is small when the population frequently brushes their teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, and both fluoridation and chlorination don't have any negative impacts on health.
Chlorinated water is used in Germany depending on the city and source. Cities using aquifers for drinking water, like Berlin, usually require less disinfectants as the original water carries little to no organisms.
They might still use chlorine for emergency disinfections. But usually the levels are very low and hard to notice.
http://www.evoqua.com/en/brands/Wallace_and_Tiernan/Pages/be...
Cities that don't have good aquifers usually resort to rivers and lakes, requiring heavier disinfection both at the treatment and on the way to the homes, so they need to add higher levels of chlorine.
All cities I've ever lived in, or ever been to, have used aquifers for their drinking water, and have never fluoritdated or chlorinated their water due to that. We currently use UV desinfection where I live.
Yeah, if you use rivers and lakes I could understand it, but I never actually knew places would do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEM...
Nope, because then you need bigger wires, and copper ain't cheap. Whereas on the same wires if the voltage is bumped, you get a wattage bump, too. So Europe gets kettles that heat twice as quickly as U. S. kettles.