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Do you visit a grocery store or similar establishment for at least 30 minutes per week? If so then there is potential for charging infrastructure to solve your

Do you visit a grocery store or similar establishment for at least 30 minutes per week? If so then there is potential for charging infrastructure to solve your use case without requiring every person to have home charging. DC fast charge infrastructure is growing at a huge rate. We have tested designs that are being mass manufactured and are installable in basically any parking lot with enough nearby grid capacity. New charger locations are being added literally daily across the US and the world. Tesla: https://supercharge.info https://supercharge.info Others (US): https://fastcharger.info https://fastcharger.info It's definitely going to be a different model than gas stations, but I think we can continue to install huge amounts of DC charging capacity at stores and along highways, combined with slower AC charging capacity at apartments, office buildings, etc, easier than we could install enough battery-swap capacity to handle the EV transition.

ryukafalz 5y ago
> Do you visit a grocery store or similar establishment for at least 30 minutes per week? Not by car I don’t; there’s no need to. Likewise my company’s office basically doesn’t have parking, so charging there isn’t an option even if I did drive there regularly (but I don’t). Best option for me would be if my apartment building had EV chargers in the garage, but it doesn’t. (And my last place was more central and didn’t have a garage at all.)
- stetrain 5y ago
  When do you use the car then, just personal travel? Without a commute your weekly charging needs should be pretty low. Charging definitely doesn't cover everyone yet but I think a lot can change in a decade, and running AC circuits off of the existing grid seems more feasible to me than mechanical battery swap stations that work across different brands and models of car.
  - ryukafalz 5y ago
    Basically, yeah. I generally don’t need it when I’m in the city. It’s only when I visit friends and family outside the city that I use it; most of them live in the suburbs since that’s where I moved from, and you mostly need a car to get there. Anyway, not suggesting that battery swap stations are particularly practical for electric cars? Those have huge batteries. But if stations for electric scooters as mentioned in the article get any traction, that’d be a win I think.

ryukafalz 5y ago

> Do you visit a grocery store or similar establishment for at least 30 minutes per week? Not by car I don’t; there’s no need to. Likewise my company’s office basically doesn’t have parking, so charging there isn’t an option even if I did drive there regularly (but I don’t). Best option for me would be if my apartment building had EV chargers in the garage, but it doesn’t. (And my last place was more central and didn’t have a garage at all.)

stetrain 5y ago
When do you use the car then, just personal travel? Without a commute your weekly charging needs should be pretty low. Charging definitely doesn't cover everyone yet but I think a lot can change in a decade, and running AC circuits off of the existing grid seems more feasible to me than mechanical battery swap stations that work across different brands and models of car.
- ryukafalz 5y ago
  Basically, yeah. I generally don’t need it when I’m in the city. It’s only when I visit friends and family outside the city that I use it; most of them live in the suburbs since that’s where I moved from, and you mostly need a car to get there. Anyway, not suggesting that battery swap stations are particularly practical for electric cars? Those have huge batteries. But if stations for electric scooters as mentioned in the article get any traction, that’d be a win I think.