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It's also ridiculous that some private company has to stamp out a good charging setup because nobody else will, but then has to let others use it. Granted, it w
by oneplane 6y ago
It's also ridiculous that some private company has to stamp out a good charging setup because nobody else will, but then has to let others use it. Granted, it would be nice if everyone would play together, but they didn't and they don't.
Some heavy-handed top-down inter-organisational group with top-down design-by-committee ideas is going to be a shitshow too, so now the question becomes: what IS a good solution going to look like?
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- tenpies 6y agoWhy is it ridiculous? The government didn't set up petrol stations - they were always private everywhere on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station#History The entire EV market is already propped by governments and this has taken us to a place of extremely heavy, extremely battery-heavy, performance-oriented vehicles. That is the complete opposite of what an EV vehicle that is good for the environment would be. We should not be incentivizing this further by encouraging government to now subsidize a charging network.
- caf 6y agoA good solution probably looks like: Consortiums of EV-selling manufacturers form to build charging networks for that consortium's cars. Eventually cross-usage deals or mergers happen between networks of similar size and usage, until you get to the any-car any-network happy place in about 20 years.