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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Portland’s “EV Ready Code” Isn’t That Electric
Description: Full Text: Portland City Council is trying its best to bring electric vehicles to the masses. But by mistake, they’re really saying, “Let them eat cake.”
Last year, Oregon passed HB 2180, which requires a fifth of new multi-family residential parking spots to be “Electric Vehicle Ready,” meaning they have the electrical capacity to host EV chargers. Not to be outdone, Portland proposed the “EV Ready Code,” increasing the EV Ready requirement to 50% of spaces.
The kicker is the code doesn’t even require developers to build chargers; they’re only required to build electrical capacity for the c...