They’re building a big new legislative parking garage in downtown Concord. Driving past it today I noticed that, like all parking garages, the walls are full of enormous wide-open windows so that fumes don’t build up and kill our retirement-age lawmakers while they toddle over to the State House.*
That would not, of course, be necessary if the cars were all EVs. Lack of fumes and far less noise are the big often-overlooked advantage of electrifying transportation.
So I checked the plans to see how many EV chargers they’re installing. The answer: None.
Plans do have “APPROXIMATE LOCATION FOR FUTURE PAD MOUNTED UNITIL TRANSFORMER TO FEED FUTURE 1200A SERVICE FOR EV CHARGER EXPANSION” listed on a note. So the building will eventually acknowledge the 21st century.
But not just yet.
*Note: I’m retirement-age and I toddle.
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