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People have commented on the pumps v. station issue, but what about time? The most accurate measure of the infrastructure might not be how many plugs are aroun
by sandworm 12y ago
People have commented on the pumps v. station issue, but what about time?
The most accurate measure of the infrastructure might not be how many plugs are around, but how many cars can be charged per day. Or perhaps how many vehicle-kilometers are available to electric cars. With pay-at-the-pump any gas pump can fill a car in say two minutes. An electric charger, even the fast ones, will take 10-100 times as long to "fill" a tank.
So take the number of charging plugs and dived that by a factor of 10x->100x. Then come back when the number of available "fills" per day becomes comparable.
Then adjust for the reduced range and come back when the total number of available vehicle-kilometers breaks even. I'm afraid that day is still a long way off atm.
- robotcookies 12y agoThat's a good point. And if people are leaving their cars while charging to run errands or such, they are likely to take up more charging station time than what might be presumed if they immediately opened up the spot after getting their car charged.
- greglindahl 12y agoThe overwhelming majority of electric car charging takes place overnight in the owner's garage, while the owner sleeps. So there's your time issue: no having to stop to fill up once a week or so, just plug in and unplug each day. There's no comparison to be made, because electric cars are just plain different.