Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked

Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by bonzini on Saturday November 26, 2016 @01:56AM (#13042196)

Sure but I will want to take a break at the beach, at an attraction, or worst case at a supermarket.

When going from Palm Beach to Orlando, we traded more time on the road for a visit to Cape Canaveral. (Way) more than 30 minutes, but the kids didn't notice neither that nor the 5 minutes stop to fill the tank...

Oh well, at least if there is going to be some kind of valet service around superchargers, it's going to be more healthy than a job filling up tanks.

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Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked by Reason077 on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:55AM (#13042399)

Absolutely. We're still in the infancy stage of charging infrastructure.

However the time and costs to build them are really pretty small (and will continue to improve with scale). You can easily put them in wherever there is parking and a grid connection.

Businesses, restaurants, malls, hotels, etc, are already starting to figure out that having charging is a great way to attract more customers. We'll see this snowball as market share of EVs grows, and it will get to the point where you can charge at most attractions you'd conceivably want to stop on a long trip.

Tesla's move to PAYG supercharging is also positive for the wider charging industry and should encourage more investment by 3rd-parties.

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