> It's not the government’s responsibility to provide chargers anymore than > gas stations?
Well, it is (IMO) if they ban us from using the only other practical alternative! I think any reasonable person agrees that we need to move away from fossil-fuels but there is little point in insisting that we use EVs with no national infrastructure to support them. We don’t leave the responsibility of maintaining our roads (especially national highways/motorways/trunk roads) to private companies, do we? All the things that Lee mentions (rubbish and sewage disposal, burning coal, etc) they are all mandated by law to be provided by our local authorities and so should EV-charging (for those who can’t charge at home or work and for long distance driving). On a side note, here on the privately owned Scottish island on which I live, the old tradition of the island estate supporting its employees with a sack of coal a week to provide space/water heating is still in place - including my immediate neighbour, much to my dismay!). I think it is true that eventually private industry will figure out that having an EV driver (+ family) stuck on your forecourt for 30 minutes or more is a golden opportunity to flog them just about anything their little hearts desire. A captive audience, if you will… But it is taking too long for them to figure it out! Interestingly here in the UK the government *has* provided funding for local authorities to install rapid (fast) charging but relatively few have taken it up and those that have have mostly spent the money badly eg putting a rapid charger in a town-centre car park with no-one to supervise it (so it gets abused/vandalised/ICEd) and where it is practically useless for long distance travel as you have to battle your way through town traffic to use it. We had the (probably fantastically expensive) TV ads with wee petrol motors powering toothbrushes, etc, here too - Honda. Oh, the irony! (Have they yet made and actually *really* tried to *sell* a practical EV?!) MW Isle of Colonsay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20201130/bfa933dd/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
