Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
by perl4ever on Saturday September 01, 2018 @11:02PM
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I think there is a "physical" reason, or to be exact, a concrete logical reason why it will be difficult. We have X number of gas pumps. If it takes Y times the amount of time to charge a car as pumping fuel, then we need X*Y chargers for everyone to go electric. It's not just a matter of what's convenient, but of multiplying the infrastructure.
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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
by taneq on Saturday September 01, 2018 @11:29PM
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Yes, but the power grid is already in place (although it'll probably need upgrading, piecemeal, to handle the additional load). You couldn't run a gas pipeline to every kerbside parking spot but you could put a paid charge point there and it would pay for itself in no time.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
by kwhitefoot on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:04AM
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> although it'll probably need upgrading, piecemeal, to handle the additional load
Not necessarily, see this document from the UK National Grid which discusses the options: https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/articles/electric-dreams-fut...