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Everyone has a fridge. Everyone uses one. Everyone has a stove, and everyone uses one. Everyone uses electricity and natural gas, sure. How many Americans have
by freehunter 8y ago
Everyone has a fridge. Everyone uses one. Everyone has a stove, and everyone uses one. Everyone uses electricity and natural gas, sure. How many Americans have EVs?
My apartment doesn't provide a hookup for my MIG/TIG welder, and I'd be hard pressed to say whether more people own welders or EVs. Besides, more people drive gas powered cars, and like you conveniently ignored, very few apartments provide on-site gas pumps either.
- newnewpdro 8y agoYou're ignoring the glaringly obvious practical difference between already ubiquitous electricity service and gasoline. How many Americans have EVs is largely irrelevant. We're talking about California, and the figure of interest would be current and future California tenants having personal automobiles. This is about faciliating a future of widespread EV adoption in California. If tenants can reliably expect @home charging, even if it's just at a relatively low-current overnight pace, it turns the EV ownership story into substantially better than ICE vehicles. You're arguing as if we shouldn't be exceeding the quality and convenience of the existing ICE vehicle ownership experience. The whole point is EVs enable a better situation because electricity isn't gasoline, and you can (and already do) have it dispensed out of your outlets at home. Without taking advantage of this difference, unless we get EVs that can charge in a matter of minutes at the "pump", I'm afraid they won't substantially displace ICEs.
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