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It seems funny to me that legislators all over the world think that they can change the physical world with a written law. While I like the idea of a convenien
by efitz 3y ago
It seems funny to me that legislators all over the world think that they can change the physical world with a written law.
While I like the idea of a convenient fast charging network for EVs, there are all these details like funding, electric infrastructure, availability of raw materials, availability of labor, and the ongoing cost of maintenance.
Here in the US charging stations are broken all the time. Even Tesla supercharging stations often have several stalls down.
I would bet huge sums of money that there is no possible way Europe has this in place on schedule.
- dleeftink 3y agoEven if it is not on schedule, it is better to have some infrastructure than none. The 2028 schedule adds some urgency to the matter.
- yokoprime 3y agoInfrastructure is the responsibility of the government. This actually works pretty well in Europe.
- veave 3y agoIn HN or Reddit you could write a comment as vague and incorrect as "Europe is perfect" and get a gazillion upvotes. Of course that does nothing for us saps who actually have to live here.
- mucle6 3y agoWhats the top 3 worst things about Europe in your opinion?
- veave 3y agoThese things are always compared to other regions and I have never lived anywhere else so I can't really give a coherent answer. But Europe is pretty big and diverse (in the positive meaning of the word) which means that making a sweeping statement such as "European governments do a pretty well job of handling infrastructure" is absurd. Do the national and regional governments of every region in every country of Europe do a pretty well job of handling infrastructure? The answer is obviously no. Some things are pretty good and some things are pretty bad. Like... everywhere else in the civilised world.
- mschuster91 3y ago> It seems funny to me that legislators all over the world think that they can change the physical world with a written law. An EU directive is either directly binding law itself (like the GDPR) or a requirement on its member states to pass a certain matter into local laws. If a member state fails to comply with the directive, the European Commission may file a lawsuit at the ECJ which may impose serious fines until the country in question complies. In this case, compliance can be done by governments on many levels: some may choose to construct charging stations themselves, some may require licenseholders of gas stations to do so, and some can do nothing and hope the free market does the work for them on their own.
- switch007 3y ago> An EU directive is either directly binding law itself (like the GDPR) or a requirement on its member states to pass a certain matter into local laws Nearly. A /directive/ is the requirement for each state to implement legislation and a /regulation/ is a directly binding law.
- staunton 3y agoNoone involved expects this to be in place on schedule. This is a matter of politics first, policy later, realization maybe eventually. I.e., have some nice dreams, give people money and tell them to build something useful, then see what happens.
- kccqzy 3y agoIt seems funny to me that you don't think legislators can change the world. Make the incentives right and everything else will follow. This is not insurmountable technical difficulty. It's just a matter of pouring money into the problem.