Rather than scattering the car-share vehicles over an area 35 miles wide, and then having to get them moved to charging stations after they’ve been parked, wouldn't it make more sense have the car-share home-based in large apartment building garages equipped with charging stations, where abundant vehicles are already coming and going all the time? If one were looking for a place to put the car-share vehicles, it would seem the big box apartment building garages would be the no-brainer place to start.

Wouldn't a large apartment building stacked on top of a garage filled with electric car-share vehicles make a lot more sense than all the very large apartment buildings stacked on top of garages filled with private vehicles? How about car-share-only parking beneath every new and recently built big box apartment building?

Why shouldn’t every new apartment building, with say 50 or more units, be required to have a garage filled with electric car-share vehicles? The cost of vehicle ownership and operation, including the parking fees everyone with a spot in an apartment building garage pays, is probably close to $10,000/year, if not more. How many car-share vehicles and charging stations could an apartment building management company provide for $10,000/tenant/year? Imagine how much more rent a property management company could get for an apartment with access to a garage full of continuously arriving and departing Chevy Bolts, Nissan Leafs or some other practical and popular electric car-share vehicle? Just as many apartment buildings have ample shared laundry facilities, fitness rooms, and internet connectivity, why couldn’t many, if not most, have ample car-share vehicles?

Before parking the vehicles in on-street spots scattered across an area 35 miles wide, maybe Russ Stark and Frank Douma should be doing more to locate the Evie vehicles in big box apartment building garages, where they would be used more frequently and efficiently, and be less costly to maintain and operate.