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There's some confusion, let me address a few points: 1) Superchargers aren't geographically positioned for daily routines, but rather strategically located bet
by sahaskatta 11y ago
There's some confusion, let me address a few points:
1) Superchargers aren't geographically positioned for daily routines, but rather strategically located between major cities across the country for long range trips.
2) There's a lot more places to charge than Tesla's 200 Superchargers. U.S. Department of Energy currently states that there are ~10k public charging stations ( http://www.afdc.energy.gov/locator/stations/?fuel=ELEC http://www.afdc.energy.gov/locator/stations/?fuel=ELEC ). This also doesn't even count the many private chargers on commercial property provided by employers to their employees. (ChargePoint's commercial network has 20k stations as well.)
3) Most people will charge at home and start with 200 miles of range each day vs. filling up a 350 mile range gas tank once a week.
4) The cost to install a charger isn't excessive: my parents spent about $600 to get an 80 amp breaker outfitted into their 25 year old home. The work was complete in a half day. (When they visit my home, they were able to plug directly into my 240V dryer outlet to recharge.) Even with the cost of install + cost of electric factored in, it's still 3-4x cheaper to travel the same number of miles on gas each year.