[DoughtyOne]

IF EVs can’t stand on their own, this is the type of thing
that should happen in the support industry.

We will probably see more of this.

The sooner the industry moves away from lithium the better.

The sooner they put more charging stations out there, the
better.

These are the two biggest downsides I can see right now.

I talk to people when I charge up. There are real problems
finding good charging stations with the chargers all
working.

So what happens, is they make first sales of EVs, and then
people have a hard time charging up.

Will they go back to a second EV? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Some undoubtedly will not return to and EV. I do expect
EVs to get better, and so there will still be an influx
of new EV buyers, but they will kill their market if they
don’t get more functional charging centers out there.

Musk was right on target when he built his own network of
chargers.

[joshua c]

they are going to need those buses

most will not be able to make the transition to ev

[gibsonguy]

charging centers are not the problem. A problem sure, but down a ways on the list. Who wants to sit there like a sitting duck for two hours or more?

[Tell It Right]

The best way to improve the charging experience is for the government to get out of the way. Any entrepreneur thinking about setting up a charger probably fears the next Volkswagen settlement resulting in a new EA charger a mile away and free for all new EV owners for a year or two.

For what it's worth, I've never had to wait for a charger. But I live in Alabama and, thus, any road trip near enough to not fly (meaning road trips in the southeast) are in areas where most EV owners live in homes (charge at home). Thus, most people at road-side chargers within 600 or so miles of where I live are just the people on a trip (not people charging for local driving). We simply don't have a lot of apartment renters using up road-side chargers for local driving.