Besides the upfront price tag, there’s a good reason most electric vehicle drivers own single-family homes.

If you have a garage or carport, it’s easy enough to replenish an EV battery with a standard outlet or a faster “Level 2” home charger. Besides convenience, recharging at home also unlocks steep cost savings, allowing EV owners to avoid the high price of visiting the gas pump or fast charger once or twice a week.

A new initiative aims to bring the same benefits to Denver’s less wealthy apartment dwellers. On Thursday, Mayor Mike Johnston joined a ribbon-cutting for a bank of six chargers outside Sienna at Sloanes Lake, a former 1940s-era dorm for nurses converted into an affordable apartment complex.

“It used to be that if a vehicle was electric, only some folks could afford it,”

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