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Old 01-15-2019, 09:41 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by rumatt View Post
So a good chunk of people are going to have to keep driving their perfectly capable luxury ICE vehicles for a few more years until charging solutions catch up with vehicle technology. And for some of these people it will be because they don't feel like cleaning out their garage.

Remind me why I'm supposed to get worked up over this?


PS The gap between horse and buggy and the first automobile is bigger than moving from an ice car to EV


Here’s a more practical question: where are you going to charge in Manhattan?

The suburban perspective is easy to consider.

Any situation where people live vertically, you have a space issue to charge cars. Even underground garaging. Even if you had a bank of 10 chargers you would swamp the system there with 20-25 EVs fighting to charge.

Petroleum is less good as a metaphor because fill-time here is so much longer.
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