>When there's a much smaller number of electric cars you can get away with a much smaller number of recharging/swapping stations and "pumps". No they don't, an

>When there's a much smaller number of electric cars you can get away with a much smaller number of recharging/swapping stations and "pumps". No they don't, and this is a big catch for them. This is a chicken and egg problem. People will be reluctant to buy electric cars until there are fast recharge stations everywhere around, because home charging takes a lot of time, and needing to travel far away you're essentially stuck. These charging stations are not quickly appearing because there are too few people with electric cars to use them. This will fix, but much, much slower than technically/economically possible.