QOTD: How Can EV Charging Get Better For Apartment Dwellers?

by Tim Healey

Published: February 17th, 2026

qotd how can ev charging get better for apartment dwellers

Rob Hoffmann's podcast, which we republish as part of our TTAC Content Creator series, raises an interesting point -- it's still hard for apartment and condo dwellers to charge EVs.

I know it's hard -- because I live in a condo in a multi-unit building. A building that banned EV charging a year or two ago.

This lack of easy accessibility to chargers is perhaps holding up EV adoption. Imagine living in a Chicago two-flat and street parking -- how do you charge your EV? Even if you have garage access, you probably don't have a charger, and I bet your landlord isn't eager to put one in.

Sure, some newer buildings offer a handful of chargers in the parking lot or garage, but it is that enough? Probably not, in most cases.

So, what's the solution? Mine would be this -- figure out a way to get chargers to be as plentiful as gas stations. And as fast, too. No one needs a gas pump at home, right?

Your turn. What's your solution? Or are you keeping it secret in order to start a business and make a million bucks?

Sound off below.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Oldsaltydog on Feb 19, 2026

Let them buy ICE powered automobiles and there is no problem, why must we create issues where none exist?

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- Jalop1991 on Feb 19, 2026
  
  and there you go.
  Lucy Biggers has plenty to say on that subject.
  A former activist who says she was ‘brainwashed’ by climate change ideology has come out to warn others against what she calls a science which simply isn’t true.
  
  Social media manager Lucy Biggers revealed that, in her 20s, she was one of the loudest voices sounding the alarm on global warming and efforts to police the world’s carbon footprint.
  
  ‘I interviewed Greta Thunberg, I have interviewed AOC [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], I pushed ideas like the Green New Deal, plastic straw bans, plastic bag bans – anything you could think that is like the typical climate activist, I pushed those things,’ she said.
  
  Now in her mid-30s, however, she released a scathing takedown of her former life, claiming her eyes were opened by what she witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic and becoming a parent, adding that scientists who challenged the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions were destroying the planet supplied the proof she needed...
  In November, Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), echoed this in an interview with the Daily Mail.
  
  Lindzen explained the basic math behind ‘climate alarm,’ revealing that the emphasis on lowering specific emissions like CO₂ simply doesn’t produce the worldwide temperature changes advocates have said it will.
  
  Moreover, Lindzen said today’s CO₂ levels need even more help to boost plant growth, which would reduce their need for water, making more food possible for billions of people in more arid regions.
  
  ‘I think we’re low in CO₂. In the geological sense, it’s much too low. Even the increase in CO₂ we’ve seen so far has probably increased arable land by 30 to 40 percent,’ Lindzen argued.
  
  ‘We are not causing the imminent crisis that we think that we are,’ he told Daily Mail.
  So, MC et al., is an MIT professor of meteorology just some kind of nutcase wackjob that's putting forth some sort of big oil agenda?
  
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Oliva on Feb 20, 2026

Sure, people choose where they live, but housing decisions involve cost, work, family, and availability. EV charging access shouldn’t be a luxury feature if we want broader adoption.

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