I don't have any problem with private industry providing services.
However, private industry has pretty much a single focus: profit. In the
case of EVSEs, there's little if any profit to be made. Of course, the
same is true for pumping gas; almost all the profit comes from the
associated services - which used to be repairing cars and now is selling
junk food. Once a profitable model is established for ESVEs you won't be
able to keep private industry out. For the time being, EVSEs need some
form of incentive or subsidy - or could be run by government entities.
Oh, I remember back in the late 70s, a door to door salesman wanted to
sell me a microwave oven. They had just come out and were ridiculously
expensive. So, he (or his company) bundled it with a lifetime of soap -
laundry soap, hand soap, facial treatments, dishwasher soap, toilet
cleaner, you name it. Then he could sell the oven at a loss and make the
overall price more palatable. Well, I decided to wait a few years till I
could buy a microwave by itself.
Peri
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From: "EVDL Administrator via EV" <[email protected]>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Cc: "EVDL Administrator" <[email protected]>
Sent: 29-Nov-20 12:14:38 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] All's not well with UK public charging
On 28 Nov 2020 at 22:15, paul dove via EV wrote:
ItTMs not the governmentTMs responsibility to provide chargers anymore than
gas stations
Two things.
1. The article is about the UK, not the US. It's a little different there.
2. Why not?
I mean, suppose - I know it's crazy, but just suppose - that we had a
government that hadn't been neatly pocketed by oil companies, and that it
actually thought EVs were a good idea.
Imagine, as far-fetched as it seems, that the US government actually gave a
bloody damn how much CO2 this profligate nation of ours blasts into the
atmosphere of this dying earth, with our ludicrous 5000lb shiny, empty, air-
conditioned leather-seated pickup trucks driven to soft-hands office jobs.
Or imagine that the government at least went through the motions as if they
did. You know, kind of like what every western European government does.
In that case, why not?
And don't give me the standard boilerplate propaganda about how government
can't do anything right, because that's BS and I don't buy it.
Why not?
Ever live in a town with a municipal electric power plant, with good service
and low costs?
If private business can't or won't do public charging right, why shouldn't
government build publc charging points?
David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey
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