So, it’s a beautiful day in NYC, Nikki and I are walking around central park, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we’ve come in from Lakeville for a few days. We go to the zoo late morning and then we’re headed off to the champagne bar at the Plaza and coming out of Central Park I am struck by what????

Yes, two electric Mini’s!!! These are the same EV Mini’s that I posted about back in early August. I don’t know if this means I’m a total loser or not, but I am just really excited to see these. I’ve pondered on occasion how NYC would incorporate EV charging into the cities infrastructure. New York is a vertical city where pretty much every square inch of space is used up, if you can park on the street maybe you get an hour or two, or you park over night on the side streets, parking in the city sucks. When I lived there after college and kept a car, I had a garage, the car disappeared into the garage after I used it, I called up and it appeared. Most of the garages there do not have parking spaces, all the cars are just crammed in together. Of course since the parking industry works on a “How many cars can I get into the lot” type business model, maybe with the added revenue from EV charging they might be more open to fewer cars new revenue stream… or how’s about the city gives tax breaks for garages that have EV charging to offset the high cost of per-square-foot real estate in the city… there are lots of different options – I’m just glad to see these on the road, it’s a good start in the right dirction.