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I can't remember the last time I had to wait in line for gas that wasn't at Costco. Costco is a pretty extreme outlier. But agreed that charging should shift
by lamontcg 3y ago
I can't remember the last time I had to wait in line for gas that wasn't at Costco. Costco is a pretty extreme outlier.
But agreed that charging should shift to the home, the problem there is chargers for on-street parking though for people who don't have driveways/garages (of course this might eventually get solved by fully automated vehicles and lowering ownership of vehicles, but that's still vaporware right now while EVs are clearly here right now).
- fragmede 3y agoIt's not too hard to imagine parking meters having charging ports.
- simfree 3y agoRunning a 240v 50A power cable is orders of magnitude cheaper than building a gas pump.
- mulmen 3y agoPorts is right. This is only viable if the cars bring the cable. Seattle tried installing chargers at public street parking spots and the cables were stolen.
- lightbritefight 3y agoThere are endless street level, public EV chargers in Seattle with cables. Some random chargers being vandalized isn't really indicative of anything.
- mulmen 3y agoHuh, I can’t think of a single one. All the chargers I know about are in parking garages.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThat's a first step, but I don't see parking meters in US suburbs. Some barely have streetlights.
- fragmede 3y agothough, In the suburbs, you're more likely to have a house with a garage where there can be a charging port.
- prepend 3y agoIt’s not the waiting that’s the important part. It’s that lots of people want to get gas and they can’t all wait 20-30 minutes to recharge.
- robocat 3y agoEspecially problematic during peak periods like longer distance holiday travel?