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Re:Dyson has scrapped its electric car project by 0xffff2 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:21PM (#21216313)
> There are over 15,000 EV charging points in the UK today

Is a "point" a single cable, or a location with potentially several cables?

>which is about 2X the number of petrol stations

Sounds like a useless comparison when a petrol pump can serve far more vehicles per hour than a charging cable.

Not to say that GP is right, but accurate comparisons are much more convincing.

Re:Dyson has scrapped its electric car project by lazyjones on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:47PM (#21216650)
> Sounds like a useless comparison when a petrol pump can serve far more vehicles per hour than a charging cable.

It is, but you also have to consider all the charging points people have at their homes. Depending on the type of area (urban/rural) people charge 80% of the time or more at home rather than at public charging points.

Re:Dyson has scrapped its electric car project by dangrossman on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:31PM (#21216430)
Electric vehicles don't get fueled the same way as petrol vehicles. Comparing "vehicles per hour" of someone's garage or driveway to a petrol station is also a useless comparison, yet that's where most electric vehicles get charged most of the time. I think I provided a sufficient counter to "there's no charging infrastructure", however. Whether it's sufficient, or cheap enough, or reliable enough, is up for debate, but whether any infrastructure exists isn't. You also don't need a whole lot of infrastructure when only 1% of new cars are electric, and the country is so small.