We also don’t have the same domestic model they have with large blocks of apartments, well, we kind of do but not to the same scale.
There’s the thing – New York, particularly Manhattan, The Bronx, etc, are made up of long streets of multi-storey apartments, which we’ve all seen many times on tv, so anyone buying an e-bike or escooter is forced to charge it in their apartment, and it’s almost always going to be some cheap Chinese item with a ropey charger – this is already a problem in the U.K. as well, but it’s usually just a single home that’s wrecked. It’s not just fires, the collapse of a multi-storey parking garage in Manhattan recently was down to poor building standards and checks not being properly monitored, and a building dating back over a century having too many vehicles in it, and those were much bigger and much heavier than anything the building was intended to accommodate, especially if many were EV’s, which can weigh two or three tonnes.
