I’m looking to get an electric car. I currently live in a manufactured home (basically a single family house) and it already has a 120v outlet in the carport and adding a 240v outlet shouldn’t be hard. Charging would be easy and cheap.
That said, I am 34, still living with my mom, so I need to move eventually. Despite years of trying to get a home in LA, I’ve failed so far and the only thing I could afford to get would be an apartment style condo or simply an apartment. It’s been a few years but I didn’t notice many chargers a few years ago when I looked at complexes. Not sure how it is now.
Are people that live in multifamily homes able to get charging done at home these days? Do they have to rely on public charging? How expensive is fast charging compared to gas prices? I’m curious before I pull the trigger on getting an electric car.
Fast charging in California is going to be a lot of charging at peak time (between 5 and 10 pm) and you will spend something close to what you would spend on gas for a fuel efficient car. Of course, if you get a Tesla, you will have a car with the speed of a sports car (yes, the base model 3 is not that fast, so think of it as fast as a cheaper and sporty car from the 80s; 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds is a pretty fast car) at a running cost of an economy car. So it isn’t all bad.