The charging lines are a problem here as well. They're now introducing new legislation that bans parking at a charger, and a progressive tax on charging over 50% of battery capacity. They're tired of assholes who plug in and go shopping for hours...
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Here new chargers are appearing everywhere. Last year there were one supercharger per county in the tricounty. Last time I checked there were 36.
Additionally most of my suppliers have installed chargers at their locations and will permit customers to charge as a courtesy.
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This is what horse enthusiasts must have felt like 100 years ago as gas stations spread everywhere.
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But the difference between a gas station and charging an EV vehicle are vast. You just don't sit in front of a EV charger for 5 minutes and then go.
And if you think about it if everybody had an electric vehicle there would have to be a shitload more electric chargers than there are gas station pumps.
I don't do lines. I've never seen that there were lines like this before and there's no way in hell that I would sit in a line like that.
I mean if you're forced to but that would be the last time I would do it.
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Can you imagine any normal gas station with a lot of gas pumps, but instead of gas vehicles they're all electric vehicles? How's that supposed to work?
There better be electric charging stations everywhere for this to work at all. Probably close to one per electric vehicle
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And then where are we going to get the electricity?
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Not with current battery technology anyways.
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There's one element you've forgotten: Unlike with gas cars most people will charge at home for their daily drives. The public chargers will only be needed for long trips and when you fuck up.
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Service providers
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Service providers will mostly charge at their home base. Fully charged overnight.
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I'm a service provider. I routinely drive 300 freedom true distance measure miles daily.
On paper an overnighter will suffice.
Now factor for load, ambient temperature that erodes battery capacity in either hot or cold within the performance band and you can see why lunch will happen at a supercharger.
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Sure, some will have to charge on the go, or have multiple vehicles, or perhaps special long-range editions when EVs become the norm.
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I agree. As battery technology evolves extended ranges will become available.
Our diesel trucks range 550 miles with a 25 mile reserve.
The gassers run about 275 with a 25.
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There's one element you've forgotten: Unlike with gas cars most people will charge at home for their daily drives. The public chargers will only be needed for long trips and when you fuck up.
That's a pretty big negative in this country though. A long trip really isn't a long trip. I would be pissed as hell if I had to drive to San Diego and then spend an hour trying to get enough of a charge to make it home. I go to San Diego relatively frequently - and that's not considered a long trip at all. Maybe 125 miles one way, with traffic times added - using the AC.
I would never drive to Phoenix that's 360-380 miles and a six hour drive in a normal car. And I have to fill up once each way to make sure I don't die out in the desert.
But for a daily grocery getter, they would be fine and I would charge at home.
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Tesla Model-S Long Range will get you to SD and back to LA and down to SD again on a full battery. 405 mile range. We're beginning to see 500+ mile EVs in development now.
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Then factor real world challenges.
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And we're back to LA-SD-LA range.
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I'm 115m to my farthest usual point. Then I'll add another 50-60m crisscrossing then 75m back to base.
Not 300 like I said.
Meh.
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That's still stretching it for most EVs. They're not there yet, but they're getting there. And they need to. Regardless of the environ-mental thing, we're going to run out of dino juice sooner or later.