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Not the person you're responding to, but yes and yes. 600 charging stations worldwide? That's worse than I thought. I'm traveling across country as we speak (I

Not the person you're responding to, but yes and yes. 600 charging stations worldwide? That's worse than I thought. I'm traveling across country as we speak (I live in an RV). I've seen one electric car charging option in the past few weeks...I've filled up over a dozen times in that period. Realistically speaking, you cannot take an electric car on vacation. That doesn't mean I don't love electric cars (I even held TSLA for a while before needing to sell some stocks for a major purchase...I kept my GOOG and sold my TSLA). One can love electric cars while still acknowledging what they cannot yet do. There was a time when horses were a better cross country means of transit than automobiles because there wasn't infrastructure for cars yet. We're at that stage for electric cars. It'll pass.

arethuza 11y ago
Maybe that's 600 Tesla provided charging stations - there ~4000 electric car charging stations in the UK alone: https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/ https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/
rchowe 11y ago
You may not have seen that many dedicated electric car charging outlets, but I bet many of the RV parks you've stayed at have a 220 V / 50 A NEMA 10-5 connector, which can give you about 30 miles of charge per hour in a Tesla. Not a supercharger, but decent. Availability of non-Tesla electric charging depends vastly on where you are. In the northeast, there are a bunch of places that have 2-4 EV spaces with a CHAdeMO connector which (anecdotally) are always full. So if you're planning a trip cross-country, you basically have to stick to the interstates for superchargers. If you have an RV, you probably think that traveling cross-country via only the interstates is a pretty bad way to see the sights though :).
imaginenore 11y ago
600 Tesla stations alone. Don't forget you can charge your car from the regular outlet, of which there are billions.

arethuza 11y ago

Maybe that's 600 Tesla provided charging stations - there ~4000 electric car charging stations in the UK alone: https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/ https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/

rchowe 11y ago

You may not have seen that many dedicated electric car charging outlets, but I bet many of the RV parks you've stayed at have a 220 V / 50 A NEMA 10-5 connector, which can give you about 30 miles of charge per hour in a Tesla. Not a supercharger, but decent. Availability of non-Tesla electric charging depends vastly on where you are. In the northeast, there are a bunch of places that have 2-4 EV spaces with a CHAdeMO connector which (anecdotally) are always full. So if you're planning a trip cross-country, you basically have to stick to the interstates for superchargers. If you have an RV, you probably think that traveling cross-country via only the interstates is a pretty bad way to see the sights though :).

imaginenore 11y ago

600 Tesla stations alone. Don't forget you can charge your car from the regular outlet, of which there are billions.