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What about when people forget to charge their cars overnight, and there's an emergency? Perhaps needing to evacuate due to a storm? It takes a few minutes to refuel and it can get you a long way.


And take something like 4 charging stations, 100 people front of you all trying to top up before evacuating, each taking full hour to charge. Now you are waiting for a day. Then 12 hours in power goes out. Now you are stuck with half of them.


The downvoting going on is telling about the ideology of some of the people on here honestly.


Mmm, what ever went wrong designing a system based on edge cases.


Edge cases? That's why they are called disasters. That's why there's disaster planning. Ever read https://www.ready.gov/ ?


The evacuations we've seen in the past few years due to forest fires and storms are not edge cases.




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