Reality is quickly overtaking this propaganda effort. Owners of electric vehicles are experiencing and loudly reporting the nightmare of long distance travel. It isn’t just about the lack of charging stations. It is also about the impractical vehicle ranges that causes trips to be constantly interrupted for LONG recharging stops. It is about the need for heat inside the car in very cold weather which results in even LESS vehicle range than normal.
There is even a more ominous threat. If you must sit in a car in one location for a long recharge, you become prey to violent criminals.
Will a single woman want to be stationary at a charging station where she MUST get out of the car to disconnect the charging cable? She is literally TIED TO THE CHARGER and cannot flee without becoming even more vulnerable by exiting her car to disconnect.
Also, the fast-charge cables have valuable copper inside. Thieves have already stolen cables to sell as copper scrap. We could easily see a huge percentage EV charging stations vandalized and inoperable. Drivers could find they are on an endless search for WORKING, UNDAMAGED chargers.
This would be like exiting an interstate highway and finding many gasoline pumps disabled and not working.
Very true, but this can go one of two ways. Just reading this https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4134133/posts about the guy trapped in Walmart for 2 hours or going to the Mexican restaurant while waiting for his car to charge. It goes back to my earlier post.
He doesn’t want to wander around a Walmart for 2 hours.
Neighbor died past summer.
Old friends came from state of Washington to east of Reno for Celebration of Life.
They had to seriously PLAN their route to find charging stations AND they overnighted both ways, so that added motel costs.
Took then 2 days each way.
Friend of mine has family in Seattle. She lives SE of Reno about 50 miles.
SHE CAN DRIVE TO SEATTLE in about 14 hours-—about 700 miles by herself-—
AIN’T going to use EV...period.
Yup—copper thieves and rapists should be paying kickbacks to the Big Guy—”business” is gonna be booming.
FYI the euroweenies have deployed a different model of charger, wherein the pedestal supports a wide variety of cables that YOU bring with your car to the charging pedestal. The pedestals are quite sturdy/armored.
Copper-theft or general a$$hole vandalism opportunity is minimized.
I agree with this. If you pull into a busy gas station there is safety in numbers. I guess the same can be said for busy charging networks. A big box store I shop at has Tesla superchargers. The store recently brought in several portable camera surveillance systems for the parking lot. I haven't heard of any violent crimes in the news, but they put those portable systems in for a reason. I believe the store closes at midnight...