It is easily solved. Put chargers in every gas station. Wouldn’t need many. There’s usually several gas stations at every exit on a highway and every few blocks in a city
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, June 4, 2023, 1:16 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Right now, most of us can tolerate a poorly maintained charging infrastructure. Charging at home means infrequent use of level 3 charging. Recently I was in France and, talking to my cousins and other people, they complain of the same thing. It may be slightly better there than US but it's still a large hindrance for EV acceptance. Soon, though, if we expect urban dwellers without off street parking to buy EVs, we're going to have to have a more reliable system. Like my cousins, two of which have no off street parking, what are people to do if they can't easily recharge once a week at a local level 3 station ? We can't assume the charge-at-home model much longer. Peri << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> ------ Original Message ------ From: "Tom Hudson via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Cc: "Tom Hudson" <tdhud...@klanky.com>; "EV List Lackey" <evp...@drmm.net> Sent: 04-Jun-23 09:38:25 Subject: Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue 14 >Watching a lot of YouTube EV content, non-Tesla charging infrastructure is a >sad joke. Kyle Connor of "Out of Spec Motors" has been reporting on CCS >charging, including Electrify America, and it's not a pretty picture. It's not >uncommon for an EA charging station with four units to have three that are >inoperable. For WEEKS. It's worse in winter, when their choice of hardware >can't cope with low temperatures. The "All Electric Family", out in Nebraska, >had to be towed on at least one occasion due to inoperable CCS chargers >(including EA). There are numerous accounts of people having to stay at a >hotel as a result of being unable to charge on non-Tesla hardware.I don't know >what people expected from EA, an entity born of the Dieselgate scandal and >VW's lies -- they cobbled together equipment that wasn't designed to be used >in vehicle charging, wasn't intended for outdoor use with wide temperature >variations, didn't set up adequate maintenance schedules and called it a >day.Ford seems t o > have effectively called it quits with CCS after CEO Jim Farley experienced >some of this on an EV trip with his family (and I'm sure, outcry from >customers who have to deal with this fiasco). They're switching to Tesla's >NACS solution -- so much easier to use (the charging plug is a fraction of the >size and slides into the port with zero effort) and vastly more reliable -- in >5 years of owning our Model 3, I think I've only seen TWO chargers out of >order in hundreds of SuperCharger visits.Ford is only the first domino to >fall, I think. Other manufacturers will (if they're smart) undoubtedly decide >to go with the solution that costs them less money and delivers better >customer experience.As we all know, 99% of day-to-day charging is done at home >and DC fast charging is primarily for road trips. But when you take a trip, >the charging has to be there -- enough locations and enough FUNCTIONAL >chargers per location -- to make it practical.If I didn't drive a Tesla, a >road trip would be a > miserable exercise in "Range Anxiety" -- something my wife and I actually >joke about on road trips, considering our first EV had less than 50 miles of >range (just 17% of our Model 3's range) and no fast charging.-TomSent from my >Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230604/5450a603/attachment.htm> >_______________________________________________ >Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org >No other addresses in TO and CC fields >HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230604/f8bfa188/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
