02-24-2024, 05:02 AM
vision63 wrote:
[quote=C(-)ris]
[quote=Steve G.]
more charging stations would increase EV sales.
The public is rightly leery.
The only time you should need public charging stations is when you are traveling. With Tesla's network becoming open as soon as that transition is complete travel charging will be a non-issue for most people.
If you don't live in a place where you can plug in every night at home or plug in when you are at work to cover your daily driving then an EV is not for you. You will pay more for an EV than a gas if you use public charging most of the time.
What the public should be leery about is battery life/warranty and what those costs look like to get a new battery or to refurb a battery with issues.
Half the people live in rentals. They all have cars. We have a ways to go, along with the other issues you mention. You describe how people scheme to make ev's effortless for themselves. That's cool. With a regular car, you don't have to scheme. You just get in and go. Not even a fragment of thought has to be applied to that scenario other than parking the beast. The empty light can be on and you don't have to worry at all. Just gas it up.
That's the gap that needs to be filled in. It will be soon enough.
38% of people live in apartments. Apartments can have chargers:
https://www.sdgenews.com/sites/sdge-news...20Oro2.jpg
Also, I think people put just as much thinking into their gas cars, if not more, they just don't notice because they've always done it. After having EVs, I feel like I spent a lot more time messing with my ICE vehicles in one way or another. Plus a thousand other things I can't believe I put up with.