Regulations -- January 30, 2025

Locator: 48441EVS.

Background: here in Grapevine, TX, one of the larger shopping malls is "Grapevine Mills." I assume the number of parking spaces number in the 1,000's? So now this, the "top story" from our daily/local "business" newspaper:

I never imagined that on private property, as such, parking spaces were "regulated" by the city.  With the interest in EVs for the past dozen years and with the huge penetration of Teslas in the local area, it's a "top story" when a huge mall plans to add three -- count 'em -- three new rapid-charge stations. Three.

I don't know how long the regulatory process for this project has been in the works, but "the action comes more than a year after the city established new regulations around electric vehicle chargers."

Finally, "a site plan filed with the city shows plans to convert 12 parking spaces into six charging stations. No other site plan changes are proposed for the project." 

Thousands of parking spaces; three new EV charging stations now with three more to go. And that's it after all these years of talk about EVs. Maybe I'm missing something, but this simply seems mind-boggling. 

It would be interesting to know the pros and cons raised by the Grapevine city council.

There are currently ten -- count 'em -- ten EV charging stations operating in Grapevine. As of January 21, 2025, nearly 1,000 EVs are registered in Grapevine.