Most suburbanites will charge their car in their garage overnight from about 11pm to 5am in the near future.
In the distant future, most cars will get recharged during the daytime (when the sun shines) at workplaces or while shopping.
When traveling, cars will get recharged at meal stops and overnight at motels.
Recharging speed really isn’t going to be important generally.
The electrical infrastructure isn’t there, and never will be.
“Recharging speed really isn’t going to be important generally.”
Impatient people waiting for a charge. Got it.
At this minute, at the Westbound Charlton meal stop/fuel stop on the Mass Turnpike, there are 167 cars parked with people inside eating or going to the bathroom. There are ten fuel pumps and no lines.
Please analyze and describe recharging architecture that can service these 167 vehicles simultaneously in the time frame it takse to eat a Big Mac or have a Cinnabon and coffee.
Oh, by the way, it's 78 degrees in Charlton right now. Please provide a similar analysis for an average December day around Christmas travel season when the temperature is 19.
The whole thing is absurd.
Forget going to grandma’s for Christmas. You’ll never make it. Drive a hundred miles and hope you can find a charging area. Hang around half the day waiting to get fully charged. Well, not half a day because you’ll be murdered and raped within the first 30 minutes.
I take it every employer will have a charging station for each employee or will allow time during the day to go charge your vehicle?
And what happens when you run out of battery 100 miles from home on some two lane road, maybe at night. Triple A, or anybody else, ain’t gonna help you. Good luck.
“Recharging speed really isn’t going to be important generally.”
To me, yes it will.
Drives in Texas, say, from DFW to Lubbock, got to stop and charge. If I have to take the time to stand there and charge a car longer than it takes to gas up, not for me.
Drive DFW to El Paso, no overnight stops on this one-day 9 to 11-hr drive. No decent restaurants for a break, and after passing west of Midland, no decent places for a meal, and fast food places are gawd awful. Again, if charging takes longer than filling up my car, EV not for me. I want to make my drive as soon as possible, not loiter around waiting for a charge.
Driving for me can be relaxing, more so than flying, but stopping is a pain.
Just me talking. . . .
One other problem: There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs. Yes, that capability will probably eventually get here, but it is very long term.
Hope your scenario includes a back up car for vacations, or doing something other than commuting to work. I generally cover 400-600 miles a day on vacation. I don’t take MANY vacations, but I’d sure be pissed if I could only do a few hundred miles a day going on one.