The City of Philadelphia has no plan to accommodate the inevitable transition to electric cars - Grid Magazine

In 2007 the City of Philadelphia launched the Electric Vehicle Parking Space program, in which EV owners could apply for permission to put a charging post at the curb in front of their house. The parking space by the charging post would be for electric vehicles only. Since few people own electric vehicles, the homeowner effectively gained a private street parking spot, which did not go over well with neighbors. “Philadelphia has more cars than parking spaces, so to take any spaces off the street, people resent it,” says Rob Graff, a transportation electrification consultant who served on Philadelphia’s Electric