Posted on 09/28/2013 10:11:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Hoping to play a bigger role in the electric vehicle revolution, the Palo Alto City Council embraced a proposal Monday night that would require new homes to come pre-wired for chargers.
Council members were unanimous in their support for the building code change, which was floated in a colleagues' memo by Mayor Greg Scharff, Vice Mayor Nancy Shepherd and Council Member Gail Price.
The city council also backed related proposals to streamline the process for obtaining a permit for a charger as well as develop strategies to further encourage electric vehicle use in Palo Alto.
"Let's figure out as a council what we can do to remove the obstacles to owning electric vehicles in Palo Alto," Scharff said before the 9-0 vote. "I think what we really need to do is make it convenient, easy and economical."
"The thing that caught me is how simple and easy and fairly inexpensive it is to rough-in the wiring," Shepherd said. The cost is often under $200 for a new home, or four times less than what it runs to install a charger at an existing home, Scharff said.
Several council members noted that Palo Alto was on the leading edge two years ago when it first started pushing chargers, but it hasn't managed to keep pace with a recent surge in demand for electric vehicles.
"They really are starting to catch on and get some market penetration," said Marc Berman, "It is important that we create the infrastructure necessary to allow that to happen. In Palo Alto, of all places, we should absolutely do that."
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We'll rely on government, and we know how well they do everything.
I owned restaurants, and if you think it was the health inspector that kept my food safe, well, it wasn't.
And of course, government isn't the only entity which can establish and enforce quality standards for an industry.
Yes, but when I checked the drawings when we added a second story to our house and found a support that was marked as 4x4 on one floor and 4x6 on another floor, the contractor let me carry on and correct the other dozen mistakes on his drawings...:^)
Now workers reading the drawings was another thing. I had to correct the plumbers chalk marks for the rough plumbing since he held the drawings upside down. He even said, that's a dumb location for the upstairs hall...:^)
Yeah, Dave, we’d like to have a Dynasty welder. But there’s no real advantage in a home shop. Our entire stable of welders cost less than $4,000. I paid $850. for the Sync 250 and it is clean.
The young one got stuck on an old HAAS mini type mill on his first machining job. Did real well and was the first person to really use it. It’s the man, not the machine, that makes a machinist. Take that to the bank in thousandths of an inch.
You practically stole that Sync 250. ;-)
Well, according to Dave Barry:
“But Edison’s greatest achievement came in 1879 when he
invented the electric company. Edison’s design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.
This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.”
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