walterbays
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Yet as it is the EVSE would never be used because the space would always be occupied by a gas car.pchilds said:Nubo said:WetEV said:.... The answer from the parking office was that the hospital's policy was that parking in that spot was reserved for disabled OR for recharging....
Which makes sense to me. The subset of people who are both handicapped AND drive an electric car has got to be pretty small. I can't imagine making a regulation that requires that both criteria be satisfied for the spot to be used.
This was the point I was trying to make. The spot would never be used, if both were required.
The EV parking curse is that wiring ease usually leads them to be located near the building in "choice" parking spots, more likely to be ICEd. ADA EV parking suffers a double curse, often located as the choicest of the choice ADA spaces. I often see the lone ADA EV space occupied by a gas car while regular ADA spaces nearby sit empty. Of course common courtesy could solve the problem much better than any law, if a gas vehicle needing an ADA space would take the EV space only if there were no other ADA spaces open.
This may not be a big issue today since neither a Leaf nor a Volt seems especially good for carrying crutches, let alone a wheelchair. But the forthcoming Nissan EV van and the Ford Transit Connect EV van might win over a lot of placard carrying drivers from their gas vehicles.