Recharge stations are popping up around here at fast food places and public parks. They usually have three or four spots per place. BUT there is another problem you may not know about. Not all EVS have the same kind of CONNECTORS, so they have to have multiple types of recharge access cables to use.......................
I see big business in Connector adapters.
Charging stations are not anywhere near where they would need to be to be viable for everyone to have a vehicle.
Do you have any clue how many gas stations are in the US? Let alone actual gas pumps? A typical vehicle fully refuels at a gas pump in 5 minutes or less... even a RAPID CHARGE TESLA takes 15 minutes and only gets you 2/3 of a your range at best.
150k gas stations in the US approximately, with 8-16 pumps each is 1.2million to 2.4 million pumps. All capable of refueling a vehicle in around 5 minutes or less on average.
a couple of plugs showing up in your mall parking lot or at a fast food restaurant that take 10 hours to charge a vehicle fully is comical.
Just because your local mall or parking garage put in a few charging stations and made sure you can see them to virtue signal does not mean the infrastructure is anywhere near where it needs to be for EV to be the main vehicle.
Yes, you can charge your car at home, but you can’t do that on the road. For commuting sure, no problem, for actual distance travel, nope. Hell next time you travel, actually stop at a service plaza or station along a busy highway.
Just spend 30 minutes and count the number of vehicles that refuel. Now imagine each and every one of them needed HOURS to do so, and figure out how many stations that plaza would need to service the same number of vehicles? Even if you assumed a large segment of those refueling were just commuters, who could charge at home and not need that gas station you will rapidly start to understand the enormity of the charging station issue...
A couple of spots in your LEET CERTIFIED PARKING GARAGE at work and in your local fast food parking lot aren’t going to cut it... not even close.