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The difference is, you can create a gas station with a barrel and a pump. No need for infrastructure.
by xenospn 2y ago
The difference is, you can create a gas station with a barrel and a pump. No need for infrastructure.
- theshrike79 2y agoAlso every single house in the civilised world has an electric outlet, the infrastructure is already built.
- erik_seaberg 2y agoSure, but the curbs three blocks away do not, and around here there's been no progress towards building it.
- theshrike79 2y agoCurbside parking is shit for everyone. I would be really hesitant to leave any car I'm not willing to lose on the curb.
- rootusrootus 2y agoYou can (and people do) create a charging station with just a battery. Using the same metric as the gas station, which will indeed need more than just a barrel to make it work.
- pornel 2y agoYou can create a charging station with solar panels and a battery. Gas stations don't fill up themselves out of thin air — a massive infrastructure has been built (and wars fought for) for extraction, refining, and supplying the fuel.
- xenospn 2y agoI’m pretty sure you would need a huge, extremely expensive battery and it could only charge one or two cars a day, and take multiple days to recharge.
- pornel 2y agoYou're saying as if it was hypothetical. This is already being done. UK's gridserve has solar farms producing 62GWh/year, that's over 2000 full recharges per day. Their "Electric Forecourts" have 6MWh of battery storage (~100 cars). https://www.gridserve.com/electric-vehicle-charging/electric-forecourt/ https://www.gridserve.com/electric-vehicle-charging/electric... Battery storage is common in charging stations, because it allows peak charging speeds higher than the grid connection, plus use of renewable and off-peak electricity.