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In that scenario stopping at a charger every day would be silly. Stop once a week at a charger that's near a grocery store, movie theater, restaurant, etc. Bot
by stetrain 7y ago
In that scenario stopping at a charger every day would be silly. Stop once a week at a charger that's near a grocery store, movie theater, restaurant, etc.
Both of my local Tesla chargers are near grocery stores. Electrify America is installing chargers at Wal-Mart.
Charging an EV is less like going to a gas station and more like picking a place to go that happens to have EV chargers while you do other things.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago> Both of my local Tesla chargers are near grocery stores. How close? Can you push your cart back to them? > Electrify America is installing chargers at Wal-Mart. How many? If we want this whole "electric car" thing to take off, you're looking at, what, 50% of the whole parking lot? Not a half dozen stalls right beside the store.
- RandallBrown 7y agoNot the post you responded to, but I've seen 20-30 Tesla chargers in the parking lots of several grocery stores. You could very easily push your cart to them. I imagine Electrify America is installing a number that they believe will meet the current demand of electric vehicles. They don't need to fill the parking lot for the hypothetical future where everyone has an EV. That will still take some time and they can easily scale up as they need to.
- stetrain 7y agoIn both cases they are at the 'back' of the parking lot, so definitely within cart or bag-carrying range. It doesn't cover everyone yet, there's no way that we're going to have infrastructure to replace 100 years of gasoline infrastructure in a handful of years. Also you only need to cover those who can't charge at home, which is a lot of people but not all of them.