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Bit of a hot take here, but if you live in an apartment, you’re in a city, and cities shouldn’t require cars.

Not that we’re there now, most places, but I think not requiring cars is a better goal than requiring them and putting a million chargers all over every city.

For anyone reading this who has never been to Germany: Apartments can also be present in villages. Some rural ones only consist of single family homes, but there are also multiple-family apartment buildings in some villages (no high-rises or big complexes of course).

So "if you live in an apartment, you're in a city" is an incorrect statement.

Whatever you call it, if there’s apartment-level density, that’s enough for public transit.

If there’s an apartment in the middle of a field… well, then there’s lots of room for chargers, I guess.

If one is lucky enough to be able to afford living in the city center and not in the suburbs.

And if you live in a suburb, plug your EV into an outlet in your garage. What’s your point?

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