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The idea of providing charging outlets at the base of street lamp poles seems like a practical way of helping transition to EV's.

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While I agree that this is obvious low hanging fruit, there are plenty of housing in areas with relatively sparse street lamps

Assuming you mean rural areas, they have their own parking.

Even where I live, the streets are full of cars but there are maybe 2-3 lamp posts on the street. You’d need lamp posts every 50 feet on both sides of the street. Which we definitely don’t have.

I live in the peninsula in the Bay Area in a rich neighborhood. If there is that many cars on the street here in a place with $2mil+ homes then there’s no way it’s gonna work in other areas as well.

I’ve lived in mostly working class suburban neighborhoods and it’s the same thing: the entire street is Joe’s Used Car Lot. Two cars in each driveway, and more cars packed in every available nugget of street between driveways. Ain’t nobody gonna be charging all those cars if they were EVs.

I absolutely don't mean rural areas, I mean medium density urban communities with very low levels of street lighting, which is great from a light pollution perspective, but less good from a bootstrapping a charging infrastructure perspective

Where I work in Oxford (UK) they have started trialling this approach and seems to be working

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