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You only get 'flooding' by vendors when there are lots of customers ready and willing to buy. In most of the world, EVs are not as useful as petroleum-powered
by simonblack 3y ago
You only get 'flooding' by vendors when there are lots of customers ready and willing to buy.
In most of the world, EVs are not as useful as petroleum-powered vehicles. I predict that in 20 years time, ICE-powered cars will still make up the bulk of vehicle sales world-wide.
Nobody seems to make provision for installing millions of charging stations world-wide and the upgrading of electricity-grids world-wide to supply sufficient energy to those millions of charging stations. The cost of that infrastructure? Horrific!! (Or maybe they are just deliberately sweeping those problems under the carpet.)
- clouddrover 3y ago> Nobody seems to make provision for installing millions of charging stations Europe is: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/fast-chargers-every-60-km-key-eu-motorways https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f... https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/germany-launch-massive-expansion-ev-charging-network-says-scholz-2023-09-05/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/germany-launch-mass...
- simonblack 3y agoEurope has what? about 600-700 million people? So one in 10 of the Earth's population is possibly doing something about the electrical infrastructure. The other 90% ? ...... crickets.
- clouddrover 3y agoIt doesn't matter how many people. What matters is how many vehicles. There are about 1.5 billion vehicles on the road globally. About a quarter of them are in Europe, another quarter in the US and Canada, and another quarter in China. Those three regions account for about 75% of motor vehicle use. Build the EV infrastructure in those regions and you solve 75% of the global infrastructure problem.