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Charging endpoints just seems like a very simple solution. Charges don’t need to be ubiquitous for Tesla to sell another 10,000 electric cars this month. Tesla
by ethagknight 8y ago
Charging endpoints just seems like a very simple solution. Charges don’t need to be ubiquitous for Tesla to sell another 10,000 electric cars this month. Tesla is clearly supply constrained. That’s my beef with the article or really the headline, sales are off the charts.There are certainly complicated scenarios, like the urban apartment dwellers out there, and they may have to be among the last to adopt, and that’s a ‘barrier’ several orders of magnitude smaller than $6T. the 100+ million housing units in the US alone can rapidly adopt electric cars in a distributed manner. A surge in gas pricing could flip that switch too. I’ve argued elsewhere on HN that gas stations, commercial garages, and retailers, and employers are in position add some circuits. It MAY be a $6B problem sprinkling 1,000,000 connections across the country at a generous $6,000ea, but it isn’t a $6T problem.