Well I live in a very wealthy country by global standards, with lots of space and sun, and many climate concerned people clearly influencing politics, and plans to export renewable energy to other countries. And there is essentially zero charging infrastructure for EVs, and no concrete plan to change that.
Charging infrastructure is the main blocker for adoption. Instead of giving tax credits for EV, government should fund the charging infrastructure. There are 168k gas stations in US. The number of EV charging outlets is 128k. Unfortunately most charging stations can take way too long and "effective density" is pretty bad. There is a huge business opportunity to provide EV charging for, say 50% of gas price. Once such business takes foot hold, others would follow.
Why do we need a plan? As soon as the demand gets there you’re going to have a thousand different startups competing to build it. We’re going to see better solutions than we can imagine right now once the competition begins. Countries have spent the past century fighting wars to secure access to oil, but now we’re afraid of being brought to our knees by the prospect of building a charging network?
In TFA he says, to paraphrase, 'We aren't going all-in on EVs and lack of infrastructure is one of the reasons.' What do you think is the fastest way to get ICE cars off the road? Pretty sure what you outline in your comment isn't it. I also don't think that affordable infrastructure actually gets built without government support - but happy to consider any counterexamples.
Just to clarify, in case you misunderstand me, I can't wait to be free of ICE vehicles.
Before insultingly telling me to “read the fucking article” maybe you should read what I wrote. The article quote is completely unrelated. Of course we don’t have the infrastructure, but what I'm saying is that we can build it, and we don’t need some giant government plan to do it.
> I also don't think that affordable infrastructure actually gets built without government support - but happy to consider any counterexamples.
You’ve never been to a gas station?
This isn’t going to involve blowing holes in mountains. All you need is a wire and a payment system.
