I have a used Leaf (Yes I know but it was affordable), here in NZ charge
at home is majority of
users, but having the Leaf I get to talk to others when going city to
city. There are some already
who use public chargers (No parking access let alone a cable) at 2 - 4
times the charge at home
rate. They still seem happy but the Road User Charges is still in the
air here. Fast chargers are
about 2 per medium sized town which is just about enough at the moment
but you feel this will
run into scale problems fairly soon. These are certainly better times
than with Lead-Acid batteries.
You get the feeling that we are going to discover new problems soon but
hey that's what life is about.
Keep those electrons pushing us around. Randall
On 5/06/23 08:01, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote:
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:15:32 +0000
From: "Peri Hartman"<pe...@kotatko.com>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List"<ev@lists.evdl.org>
Subject: Re: [EVDL] charging infrastructure [EV Digest, Vol 127, Issue
14]
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Right now, most of us can tolerate a poorly maintained charging
infrastructure. Charging at home means infrequent use of level 3
charging. Recently I was in France and, talking to my cousins and other
people, they complain of the same thing. It may be slightly better there
than US but it's still a large hindrance for EV acceptance.
Soon, though, if we expect urban dwellers without off street parking to
buy EVs, we're going to have to have a more reliable system. Like my
cousins, two of which have no off street parking, what are people to do
if they can't easily recharge once a week at a local level 3 station ?
We can't assume the charge-at-home model much longer.
Peri
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