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With electric you plug the car in overnight while it is parked. It is full every morning, and you never need to go out of your way to charge it unless you are o
by samcheng 6y ago
With electric you plug the car in overnight while it is parked. It is full every morning, and you never need to go out of your way to charge it unless you are on an intercity trip.
It really is more convenient than gasoline!
- rsj_hn 6y agoI don't think most people would consider only charging at home an advantage or "convenience". If you even need to go to a charging station once and spend a half hour to an hour there, that becomes very inconvenient, even if you only need to do that once a month. Most people would like to have a charging station always nearby so that it becomes stateless for them, so that they don't need to think about how much they drove that day, and they want the charging to happen within a minute or so to view it as equally convenient as gas. PEV have many advantages, but let's be realistic -- the convenience of charging is a disadvantage.
- bobthepanda 6y agoAlso this assumes you have a driveway that has a charge point hooked up. This does nothing for, say, most apartment buildings which don’t have charge points, or people who park on the street.
- samcheng 6y agoThat’s true; we’re going to want a substantial improvement in charging infrastructure over the next decade.
- Robotbeat 6y agoWe need outlets in apartment parking lots (they already have light poles, and block heater outlets are common in northern areas) and off-street parking. It’s pretty cheap to just add outlets.
- sidpatil 6y agoAssuming that the existing wiring can support the increased demand.
- Robotbeat 6y agoIt used to be pretty common for electricity demand to double every decade. Residential electricity usage more than doubled from 1950 to 1960, and then again more than doubled from 1960 to 1970 (and then about doubling again by 1990). A lot of that was air conditioning becoming common and then ubiquitous. Electric cars will be able to be more responsive to grid constraints than air conditioners ever were. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=38572 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=38572
- bobthepanda 6y agoEVs are very energy intensive, and in a location of the building that never had such high energy requirements; parking garages are one of the pieces of the building that is extremely optimized and so may be complicated or expensive to retrofit. Building codes have had to be adjusted to accommodate, but new housing is a fraction of the total building supply in any given area, and retrofitting can be nearly four times the cost of a new installation. And these building codes usually target a <10% amount of EV spaces. Anecdotally, I work in an office building that meets these codes and is all LEED-compliant and stuff, yet demand for the limited EV spaces outstrips supply and you basically get rationed access to it on a first-come first-serve basis.
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- Andys 6y agoIf you have a garage and a power point at home, you just leave it plugged in while you're not using it. You don't really even have to think about it - definitely more convenient than having to find a gas station once a week
- FullyFunctional 6y agoIt's a huge convenience! I love not having to get to the gas station (it always at the least convenient time).