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As recently as four years ago, the rhetoric was "there's no infrastructure for electric cars, building one is totally infeasible, therefore elextric cars will n
by jblow 11y ago
As recently as four years ago, the rhetoric was "there's no infrastructure for electric cars, building one is totally infeasible, therefore elextric cars will never work."
Now the rhetoric is "waaah, the charging stations are kind of inconvenient."
Anyone who writes this kind of article without looking at dsituation/dt is being dumb.
- MBCook 11y agoDid you read the same article I did? His complaints didn't seem to be "charging is inconvenient" as much as "the navigation/trip optimization system caused me drive an extra 5 hours and make 4 extra stops that were totally unnecessary".
- bigdubs 11y agoPretty sure "extra time" falls under the "charging stations are not convenient" header.
- MBCook 11y agoBut time wasted due to bad/unneccessary directions is not the inconvenience of the charging stations, it's just bad directions.
- soylentcola 11y agoI'd imagine that more infrastructure (in the form of more charging stations) would make route planning and navigation a much less painful affair. If there was a charger in every town over (x) population, you wouldn't need to take those much longer routes or deal with drastic detours and backtracking if the range needs to be recalculated due to changing circumstances (air conditioning use, ambient temp, driving speed, etc.)
- xutopia 11y agoNot to mention that they test it with a road trip... how often do we do road trips? 98% of our driving is done within a few miles from our homes.
- mark-r 11y agoThat doesn't mean the other 2% can be ignored. On the contrary, those are the times when you want the least amount of trouble.
- chrismcb 11y agoIf you have to drive a state or two out of your way, the infrastructure isn't really there yet.