Safety and ADA issues aside, I think this solution looks terrible. It’s easy to overlook one person doing it. But when a bunch of people are doing it, it’s going to be a horror show of frayed charging cables laying all over the place looking very sloppy. You’ll love it when ford gets their electric pickups on the road, and you have people throwing polyester NASCAR driver blankets laid over their charging cable on the sidewalk (or American flag blanket that they may drunkenly lawnmow over).Little dramatic but I see what you mean. My neighborhood will need to face that more and more people around here are buying EVs and they also own townhomes.
I as well as another person does this with his model s in the same street. He doesn’t even cover his. I imagine more and more people will have this issue in the coming years.
I really don’t understand why people buy these cars when they don’t have private off-street parking, and expect to be able to charge their cars. For as much as I like nice townhouse communities, their residents need to work with their HOA for an EV friendly infrastructure, and drive ICE vehicles until then. Not just show up one day at a HOA board meeting asking to grant a waiver for their new EV.