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Everybody will be charging at home/work. Other places you'll likely charge are conveniently located places between long distance destinations. Rest areas for ex
by einichi 5y ago
Everybody will be charging at home/work. Other places you'll likely charge are conveniently located places between long distance destinations. Rest areas for example.
Costco might implement chargers at parking spaces as a convenience thing, but if they do it for free they'd have to do it for all parking spaces to prevent people fighting over spaces. I have no idea how such a large-scale charging system could be retrofitted into an existing car park. Seems more likely that if supermarkets etc did want to implement charging in their carparks, they'd install a few and charge a nominal amount.
- rascul 5y ago> Everybody will be charging at home/work. Other places you'll likely charge are conveniently located places between long distance destinations. Rest areas for example. It seems like there's a lot of work to be done to scale this up for when electric vehicles get more popular. Many apartment complexes I see have no facilities for this, for example. But electric vehicles are also quite rare in this area.
- vel0city 5y agoMost people in the US live in single family homes. A ton of those homes have plenty of power capacity to add an EV to charge at home overnight. Sure, things might be complicated for apartment dwellers at the moment, but a massive percentage of the commuter miles driven in the US could be easily handled with EVs without massive infrastructure change.