In the three years since New York City began installing curbside chargers for electric cars, demand has boomed — both from EV owners and from gas-engine drivers willing to risk a ticket.

Electric vehicles encourage the use of private automobiles, which induce sprawl, road building and loss of habitat.

It is more likely that older multi-story carparks will be damaged by heavier SUVs, utes, HEVs and PHEVs than by Battery Electric Vehicles.

Parking garages are one area where the growing number of EVs and bigger vehicles is going to have a major impact.

The Dallas airport has chosen EV Safe Charge’s robotic charger ZIggy for demonstrating the newest charging approaches.

In a sign of yet another demand placed on already busy curbs, officials at the recent CoMotion Miami conference weighed in on the placement of urban EV chargers. Spoiler alert: they don’t like the idea of a single-use curbside.

Drivers will have to share access to public chargers. That could get ugly.