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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by DennisP on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:31AM (#35665961)
Anyone with a house and an EV can do it. I don't have an EV yet but some friends just stayed for a week with a rented Tesla, and charging it up in the garage every night worked great, even with just a regular 120V outlet available.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by nixass on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:20AM (#35667477)
> Anyone with a house

So how many people is that? Don't estimate house ownership or house rents on your circle of friends. What about cities, apartments with no means to install chargers? World is not urban sprawl where houses have garage and power available for charging cars.

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by DennisP on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:53PM (#35668492)
70% of Americans live in houses:

https://www.builderonline.com/money/economics/80-percent-of-...

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by nixass on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:06PM (#35672968)
Got it, world is America.

Also, the way North Americans are developing their dwellings and neighborhoods/suburbia is absolutely horrible

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by DennisP on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:19AM (#35676442)
As of 2019, 53.3% of Europeans lived in houses: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/flats-houses-types-ho...

"In 2008, it was estimated that six out of ten Japanese lived in single-family houses." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Japan

I'm not going to keep googling this for everywhere but in developed countries at least, it doesn't appear that "home charging isn't a thing for vast majority of car owners."

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