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In Amsterdam, the city creates an electric car parking spot (with charger) near your house if you get an electric car. This is effectively a private parking spot if you're the only electric car owner in the street, and that's incredibly valuable in a city where parking spots are hard to find.



Amsterdam is really charging ahead with environmental & climate change issues. I'm still glad I live in GLD and only work there, but it's leading the way in the Netherlands on multiple fronts. Really inspiring.


This will not scale as more and more people make use of this though. I agree it's a very strong incentive though.


It doesn't have to. It just needs to help electric cars reach the critical mass needed before companies enter the charging station market.


It's great for early adopters. Eventually, as everybody switches to electric, the advantage will disappear, but by then, everybody has switched to electric, so that's all good.

And by then there will be a market for commercial charging stations, if they are necessary.


The version that scales better is inexpensive pay charging stations.


Ubitricity is an example of such a scheme:

http://youtu.be/rKaEhBjt1ls




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