On 1 Nov 2023 at 0:56, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > Instead, chargers need to be located where people can usefully spend > some time. That may be at the grocery, a shopping center, a park, > highway rest areas, a walkable neighborhood, a tourist destination, for > example. Then you can painlessly wait as long as needed for your charge.
Absolutely. Running with just one example, most travelers will welcome a periodic pit stop with food and/or drink. The autoroute aires here usually have surprisingly decent restaurants - hey, it's France; good food is darn near a legal right. A standard French lunch, properly enjoyed, will take abouit 2 hours. That's plenty of time to charge our Renault Zoe's 52kWh battery from 20% to over 80% at a 22kW AC charging point. I'm not entirely sure that that's coincidence. :-) In the 1960s, longtime EV list correspondent Bob Rice worked for Bob Aronson's Electric Fuel Propulsion. Bob wrote here about EFP's Electric Car Expressway, with 30kW AC charging at 5 cooperative Holiday Inns along I-94 between Detroit and Chicago. Every motel had a restaurant. Bob said that when he drove the route in EFP's Mars II EVs, he never arrived hungry or thirsty. :-) David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and then believe what they read. -- Karl Kraus = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
