Good counter arguments! Thanks Bob On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 12:50 PM Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > >> I'm not sure EV charging stations will ever be as prolific as gas > > stations are now. > > > > The 300 million cars are served by about 120,000 gas stations in the > USA... > > What about when we get to 300M EVs? Lets assume 80% charge at home > > leaving 60M needing public charging... 250,000 high speed chargers > needed. > > Which is just two per gas station. Certainly possible. > > > That leaves the 9 million needing 3 hours a day at L2 for 36 million L2 > > charging hours a day. Divided by 24 gives about 1,500,000 public L2 > > chargers. > > Roughly 12 times the number of gas stations. But L2 chargers can be put > almost anywhere; any business can have one. So it is quite conceivable > to have that many. > > > So I say as I have always said... "anyone who buys an EV with the idea of > > dependence on public charging will be VERY disappointed! > > Right now, yes! To my mind, it is GOOD not to depend on public charging. > Charge at home! > > But as an engineer, I see no technological challenges with a system > where home charging is somehow prevented, so that paid public charging > is the only option. The oil companies could convert their gas stations > to "filling stations" with EV fast chargers. The power companies could > get into the public charging business, and license smaller L2 chargers > the same way banks set up ATMs in every mall and big-box store. There > are easily 12 times more places where such EVSE's could be put than just > at gas stations. Any public place you park your car could have one. > > Cities, states, stores, the oil companies, power companies, and whoever > makes these EVSE's would all see it as a new source of profits. All of > them would lobby for such a solution. > > They get complete control over the price and delivery. They can tax the > bejesus out of the electricity, just like fuel taxes. They can limit or > shut down the chargers in case of brownouts, or even "borrow" power from > your EV battery packs when needed. > > THAT's my worry. > > -- > Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. The wise avoid it. > Geniuses remove it. -- Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming" > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190505/81062f28/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
