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Your replies are mostly hostile, sadly. The electric vehicle "future" has yet to identify how to handle this. The charging infrastructure is incredibly weak unl

Your replies are mostly hostile, sadly. The electric vehicle "future" has yet to identify how to handle this. The charging infrastructure is incredibly weak unless you have a garage with a charger installed. A lot of people rent or have a small plot of land w/o a garage and they park on the street. The public charging infrastructure outside of California cities is weak. There are very few fast chargers, and the electric vehicles charge slow unless they're a Tesla. The Chevy Bolt from GM? The fast charger is optional and is only 50kW. This means about 50 miles every 17 minutes. That's over an hour to refill the tank. The rebuttal to how slow the public charging charging is is always "top off at home" and the rebuttal to no at home charging is always "public fast charging". Yet we see neither is doing well.

hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
But isn't this pretty obviously identifiable as a "chicken and egg" problem? You say "The electric vehicle "future" has yet to identify how to handle this", but I totally disagree. In Austin it costs $4.17 a month for unlimited charging at public charging stations, and there are a lot of them: https://austinenergy.com/ae/green-power/plug-in-austin/charging-station-map https://austinenergy.com/ae/green-power/plug-in-austin/charg.... It's not hard to imagine that if the number of EVs goes to a very sizable share of all vehicles, instead of the low single digits that it is now, that the number of charging stations would explode.
- throw0101a 7y ago
  When we start having >300 kW CCS 2.0 deployments, and cars that can make use of them, this will be less of an issue: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Versions_of_the_specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Versi... Until then, I hope that hybrids will be an option.
danans 7y ago
> That's over an hour to refill the tank. Don't know about you, but I usually have at least 8 hours every night available for this purpose.

hn_throwaway_99 7y ago

But isn't this pretty obviously identifiable as a "chicken and egg" problem? You say "The electric vehicle "future" has yet to identify how to handle this", but I totally disagree. In Austin it costs $4.17 a month for unlimited charging at public charging stations, and there are a lot of them: https://austinenergy.com/ae/green-power/plug-in-austin/charging-station-map https://austinenergy.com/ae/green-power/plug-in-austin/charg.... It's not hard to imagine that if the number of EVs goes to a very sizable share of all vehicles, instead of the low single digits that it is now, that the number of charging stations would explode.

throw0101a 7y ago
When we start having >300 kW CCS 2.0 deployments, and cars that can make use of them, this will be less of an issue: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Versions_of_the_specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Versi... Until then, I hope that hybrids will be an option.

danans 7y ago

> That's over an hour to refill the tank. Don't know about you, but I usually have at least 8 hours every night available for this purpose.