Posted on 06/20/2023 10:58:33 AM PDT by grundle
As electric vehicles (EVs) become increasingly popular, Walmart has announced plans to build EV charging stations at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the country by 2030.
“With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option that will help make EV ownership possible whether people live in rural, suburban, or urban areas,” wrote Walmart’s Senior Vice President of Energy Transformation Vishal Kapadia in a release.
By installing charging stations across the country, Walmart makes owning an EV easier for drivers who worry they won’t be able to find a place to charge their vehicle.
“Easy access to on-the-go charging is a game-changer for drivers who have been hesitant to purchase an EV for concerns they won’t be able to find a charger in a clean, bright, and safe location when needed,” Kapadia wrote.
Already, 280 Walmart and Sam’s Club locations in the U.S. offer nearly 1,300 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles.
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Looks like they are going to bring a lot of “captive shoppers” into their stores who are waiting for their cars to charge. Probably expand the dining area with a wi-fi connection.
A smart move.
Ya know in Europe, the car charging stations are ‘bring your own cord.’
YOU just plug one end into your vehicle, and the other end into the ‘pole.’
No thefts ...
Maybe so, until the vandalism commences.
I had to cop a plea after the coppers caught on to our copper cable caper.
Are they going to build the infrastructure to supply the needed electricity? Preferably nuclear.
If they don’t this is a big nothing burger. There user base doesn’t drive EVs.
“...they got it right this time.”
Nope, they didn’t. We are one of the top 3 petroleum export countries in the world even though we are hamstrung by an administration paying back the ecologist with the shutting down of drilling and and pipelines getting even close to the maximum output we are capable of. We are up to our eyeballs in oil and gas and can’t move it or use it. And before this administration came in, we were the largest exporter of petroleum products in the world.
Yet we are struggling with our current personal usage problems with electricity and are still enduring blackouts, brownouts, and having to buy power which raises the price of it from other locations with no real plan that is feasible in sight.
About the only thing these, and other, stores did was capitalize on the government’s more than questionable agenda to appease the ecologists for their campaign donations while the taxpayer pays the bill in the name of pollution. However, what they are concerned about is carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and unburned hydrocarbons. CO2 is an essential nutrient for land-based plants, NO is produced in the paranasal sinuses and is excreted continuously into the nasal airways of humans, and hydrocarbons are the main energy source of the world. We can go as ecology as we want but the rest of the world will not be able to make the change and won’t even try.
So what good is it? It is money in the governments hand, control, and an opportunity for the movement change they have been trying to accomplish at the expense of the taxpayer. You can equate it to taxes right before our revolution in the 1700’s.
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This is anecdotal: so far for me I've had zero wait time at the EA chargers at Walmart's when traveling in the EV (around the southeast) for the year we've owned our EV. I hook up immediately and I'm outta there in 10-15 minutes. This is because the EA chargers at Walmart charge as fast as 150kW. At over half of the ones I've been to, there are two 350kW chargers. I've never had to wait for one of those (perhaps because charging happens quickly and the EV owner moves on).
As far as capacity goes, that's a real issue. I've seen at most 4 other EV owners charging when I am. If all 8 or 10 bays were to charge at the same time, and up to 350kW each, that'd be quite a load. Perhaps there's already such a huge load pulled by the Wal-Mart store that an extra 3 or 4 mega-watts isn't so much? I don't know.
Perhaps the reason I've seen at most 4 people charging at a time is because they charge fast and move on. And perhaps because EV's aren't as popular in the southeast. Perhaps because in the southeast we're more rural (read: higher percentage of us live in homes we can charge at instead of apartments, thus almost everybody I see at chargers are fellow travelers and not charging for local driving because they live in apartments -- maybe in more urban areas that's not the case). And perhaps the reason I see so few EV's charging is because we don't have bitter cold here (which slows down charging speed and can increase the odds more charging bays will be used simultaneously).
The Claude Cooper copper cable caper.
At least you’ll have a clear conscience, comrade..............
No fixing stupid.
How long does it take to a car charge? Do you want to hang out at Walmart for a few hours?
Funny as hell that they are jumping on board as all the problems with e-cars are surfacing. Worse environmental footprint than gasoline vehicles, milage/per charge massively decreased with a load, fires.
Such a dumb idea, almost as dumb as HOV lanes for parents with kids, anyone with two jobs or job & school. Bureaucrats deposit their brains at the door.
Where is the power coming from?
They won't get caught. It doesn't matter how good the video coverage may be. Local authorities will not allow the police or District Attorneys to follow up on such cases. It's too much work for them.
And if the thieves appear to be from one of the protected "minority" groups, the authorities won't touch the case with a ten-foot pole, even if the perpetrators are wearing name tags. That would be "racist".
“ They may but their chances of getting caught are huge because every square inch of W-M property,”
They dont prosecute for theft, remember?
No they got it wrong.
Using that as a representation of "EV's" would be like the ICE car haters pointing out the fallacies of a Yugo or a Pinto.
You get to go buy Walmart or Sam stuff while waiting for the charge. I’m not a fan of electric cars, but this is a brilliant business decision.
It's time to place our bets. Which liberal policy will win out? Will they let the thieves get away with it, or will they decide that saving the polar bears from cow farts is worth prosecuting EV charger destruction? LOL
Uses batteries=EV. 😂👍
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