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nothing excet economics. And I'm not talking only about the huge cost of having 1 charging point for each parking space, but I doubt current utitlity pole lines
by cowl 5y ago
nothing excet economics. And I'm not talking only about the huge cost of having 1 charging point for each parking space, but I doubt current utitlity pole lines can handle the power needed to charge every car so every city must invest in completly new Electric infrastructure too.
- avianlyric 5y agoI seriously doubt putting a charing point in every parking space is that expensive. We don't struggle to install lamp posts, or connect up houses. The cables are already there, you just need to tap into them. In the case of a lamp post that's trivial to do. Certainly capacity is a bit of a worry. But there are simple solutions to that as well. Offer cheaper charging, but you guarantee that you'll get X KWh between 8pm and 8am, but don't specify exactly which hours. Then just have the chargers load share, only having 20%-30% of cars charging at any one time, and changing which cars are charging to make sure that everyone get's their allocated KWhrs, and the grid isn't overloaded. This a feature that pretty much every commercial charger already supports. It's basically a standard feature to gang a bunch of chargers together, give them a shared power budget, and then let them either queue cars, and limit charging rates, to remain within the power budget. And even then, the cost of all this infrastructure is minuscule compared to cost of climate change defences and remediation. To claim this infrastructure is too expensive is penny wish, pound foolish. Finally there's already a bunch of companies installing these chargers, its gonna be a god damn gold rush. EV are inevitable, the companies that own the physical infrastructure are gonna make bank. Just like telecom and electricity companies did.