Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by phinnaeus on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:43PM
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Is it feasible to have charging installed at your home or office? To reiterate what GP said, I basically never charge anywhere except at home (currently in a private carport that I got a charger installed at, previously in an apartment building with a single shared charger for ~50 spots, 4-5 EVs).
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by SirMaster on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:56AM
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I don’t really see how I could convince my apartment or the company I work for to install chargers any time soon.
Sure maybe in years it will be common enough, but that’s my entire point. It doesn’t seem common at all around me yet, and I’m not going to buy an EV before charging is reasonably available.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by pjc50 on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:53AM
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Some jurisdictions are going to start mandating this for large car parks. The transition is definitely going to be very uneven; the closer you are to the centre of a big city with an air quality problem, the sooner it will arrive.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by kelnos on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:51AM
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Sure, but you're missing the point that you yourself just made: "are going to start", as in, they haven't yet. Most people are not going to buy an EV today without a reasonable charging solution, banking on the idea that situation will fix itself at some point in the hopefully-not-to-distant future.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by pjc50 on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:22AM
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Yeah, it's always been a chicken-and-egg transition problem. There's always a least convenient link in the chain. Hence all sorts of schemes to nudge people / subsidize early adopters so the cycle of "we don't need to solve charging because nobody has EVs"/"we can't have an EV because there's no charging" is broken.
Hence why I think it will expand outward from urban centres, motivated by e.g. ULEZ requirements.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by paconbork on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:17AM
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Hawaii already has this rule for what it's worth. The issue there is that they have so many EV's on the road that these chargers are always in use and have lines (and aren't really that fast to begin with). Having experienced that, I still wouldn't get an EV without a guaranteed place to charge at home.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by DoesntMatter22 on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:20AM
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Sounds like you live in the middle of nowhere. I live in what people consider the middle of no where and there are a number of Tesla charging stations near me.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by SirMaster on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:53AM
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I don’t live in the middle of nowhere.
I live in Wisconsin between Madison and Milwaukee.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by DoesntMatter22 on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:04PM
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That is basically the middle of nowhere in the United states.
Re:Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a ...
by troupo on Monday July 03, 2023 @09:29AM
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I live 10 kilometers from the center of Stockholm in a dense suburb with a population of 55 000 (Stockholm is a small center core with lots and lots of suburbs).
There are perhaps 20 chargers in total in the entire suburb. Maybe 8 of them are fast chargers. There are another 20 in neighbouring suburbs.
And no, it's not an American suburb with single family homes. It's an European suburb with apartment complexes.
Same thing for at work.
And checking the charging maps shows very few options anywhere near me and the few places that do only have a couple plugs. Would be annoying to find it's in use by the time I get there so I would have to wait for them and then me.