Yeah, that'll work for those who don't have charging options at home. As long as they're able to do something else like work or shop. But waiting for your car to charge sucks, and gets old fast. I don't see mass adoption if 40% of all owners have to do that.
Not gonna happen. Not a real thing in the real world. The semi trucks are still concepts without ANY infrastructure to get on the road. That's literally none. And unlike lightweight EV's, they depend entirely on charging enroute - which does not exist, full stop. There is a ton of existing infrastructure for normal lightweight (car and SUV) EVs. The lightning is not a concept. Every semi EV is a concept. Interesting concepts, with promise, but literally not feasible in the real world. Said as a longtime early EV adopter with many miles under my belt.
Agreed, owning an EV without also owning charging equals a decision to have the car own you rather than the other way around. It no longer serves a purpose, it becomes the purpose. Keep it if that's the deal. I counsel my un-homed friends, my own kids, and my students to avoid owning/driving EVs entirely until they have a place to charge that they fully control. Just like their cell phone. Going somewhere to charge means ceding life time, which is all we really own of value. Only so many heartbeats in the ticker - giving any to wasted time/effort or drudgery is a precious, no priceless, asset that can never be recovered. I have sat at many charging stations, campgrounds, welding shops, and marinas on road trips before there were Superchargers. Then it was an adventure. Never. Again.
correct - and building owners will be forced to make EV charging a priority too. Just a decade ago it would have be almost ludicracy to ask an apartment complex if they had a gym or pool. Today it would be insane to build one without a gym, an Amazon box drop-off facility, etc. EV charging is becoming the same - and apartment owners are literally scrambling to add them in order to be competitive. If you have a hotel or apartment complex today -it IS on your list to get done in the next three to five years for existing projects - and every new project will have them. You will have to offer them in order to be competitive. It would be like trying to rent an apartment where there is no cable TV. And folks, there was no cable TV or internet in the 1970's. Somehow every apartment has both today. This won't be so hard.
I'd guess a LOT do though. In our neighborhood, upscale apts and condos, there are a LOT of Tesla's parked on the street and only some of the buildings, all fairly new, have chargers most have none and none has enough parking if every dwelling had a car.
Vanilla/Chocolate. Didn't mind at all for two years. If I moved again and didn't have charging, I know it would be easy to live off the chargers at the supermarket, Tesla and EA.
You're definitely an outlier to the norm. Most people wouldn't switch to an EV if it means they have to wait longer to charge their car on average than it is to refuel their ICE vehicles. One of the major reasons why I switched to EVs is to avoid the long lines at the Costo pumps.
Most people in the US drive an average of 29.5 miles per day; which is well within the realm of an L2 charger, or even an L1. There are obviously exceptions to this. I have found that a lot of people that own Tesla’s without home charging own them for the Cachet of having a nice car, and EV bragging rights. Though, each of them in turn has installed their own L2 after a short while.
Long-haul trucking is not going to be feasible anytime soon for the reasons you mention. There are some use cases that make sense in the short-term, though. Shipyard terminal tractors and semis used for local deliveries or short routes between distribution hubs are just a few examples. They would work great for moving Pepsi products between bottling facilities and storefronts. Public chargers wouldn't be needed in that case and charging could happen at the main depot.
Sadly facts are otherwise. In our neighborhood of new apts and condos, about 1,000 dwellings. Only two buildings have chargers for a total of twelve for 1,000. The new one going up four buildings away will have six for 150 units. These are all rented to individuals, not available to all.
No. Musk put them in because he recognized that range anxiety and having a network of chargers was ESSENTIAL to Tesla's selling EV's from the very beginning. It's why Tesla is still building them out at a fast rate, concentrating on the areas of high usage and lines.
Which is exactly what I said. It’s burning capital, but in a smart way.
