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Charge time matters. I can fill a gas tank in the time my partner uses the bathroom. Evs need a lot longer.
by bluGill 11mo ago
Charge time matters. I can fill a gas tank in the time my partner uses the bathroom. Evs need a lot longer.
- fisherjeff 11mo agoLack of pull-through charging stations is a very big hurdle too.
- dboreham 11mo agoPresent day EVs don't take that long to charge (basically the time to go to the bathroom and check email), but they don't have enough parallelism so at a busy location you can end up waiting for an open charger. There are orders of magnitude more gas pumps than public chargers.
- NetMageSCW 11mo agoThat’s an unfair comparison because you can’t count gas pumps used to charge in your locality - those are replaced by charging at bome.
- bluGill 11mo agowhen you need a charger there is rarely any choice of location. Charging at home doesn't help when you are not home. Those rare public chargers is what you need and they can be hard to find.
- vel0city 11mo agoThis varies a lot based on where you are. For the trips I usually take around in Texas where I need public chargers, I actually usually do have a choice of chargers. I understand this isn't universally true in other parts of the US though.
- UncleMeat 11mo agoIf you don't have a place to charge at home, yes. But if you are charging at home then the only time you need to charge away from home is on long road trips. And you need to stop for lunch or whatever. And if you are taking only a couple road trips a year the time spent charging on road trips will be exceeded by all the time spent on gas fill ups throughout the year for a gas vehicle.