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> There are over 15,000 EV charging points in the UK today Is a "point" a single cable, or a location with potentially several cables? >which is about 2X the

• dangrossman 7y ago
  Electric vehicles don't get fueled the same way as petrol vehicles. Comparing "vehicles per hour" of someone's garage or driveway to a petrol station is also a useless comparison, yet that's where most electric vehicles get charged most of the time. I think I provided a sufficient counter to "there's no charging infrastructure", however. Whether it's sufficient, or cheap enough, or reliable enough, is up for debate, but whether any infrastructure exists isn't. You also don't need a whole lot of infrastructure when only 1% of new cars are electric, and the country is so small.
• lazyjones 7y ago
  > Sounds like a useless comparison when a petrol pump can serve far more vehicles per hour than a charging cable. It is, but you also have to consider all the charging points people have at their homes. Depending on the type of area (urban/rural) people charge 80% of the time or more at home rather than at public charging points.