On 15 Sep 2020 at 20:04, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > Side note: if the US government were to expand interstate rest areas > into something like the French model (I don't know if that model exists > in other countries), that would help even more. The French autoroute > stops have the ubiquitous gas stations but also a few shops, some fast > food, and sometimes restaurants, all confined together so you can easily walk > to any of them. It's a shoe-in to put EV charging there.
That's already happening. France seems to be pretty much all in for EVs. I was there in early March (right before the big lockdown) and both stops I made on the A10 heading north to Paris had good-sized charging areas. I didn't take time to look too closely, but I saw kiosks in use at each. > Not so much on the US interstates. Why not? I mean other than the fact that in most of the nation, especially the middle, governments generally don't give a fig. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. This can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. -- Doctor Who, "The Face of Evil" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
