Wonderbar:
Guess I’d like to hear what percentage of EV buyers cannot charge easily at “home”. What about apartment/condo/tight city street dwellers? People with no personal garages? People that commute in daily heavy traffic situations? Or vacation trips? Seems like all of these categories may be more than 1%?
I’m really seeking information here, not being argumentative.
Right now these people aren't in a hurry to get a EV. An EV is not a necessity just yet. They can afford to wait till the infrastructure to catch up first. Some of them can and do already made the switch as they have easy access to public chargers.
Here I live the infrastructure is ok. I have a friend who lives in a single dwelling house, he didn't even bother to install his own home charger, yet he owns both a Model 3 and a e-Golf. he gets his e-Golf charge up at work every day.
But honestly the question is really down to where one lives. Some cities are really good with infrastructure investment and are well equipped to handle EVs, others aren't and will be more heavily replying on people charging at home.
Vacation trips are doable even in EVs. they have a EV trip planner that if you tell the website what car you have, they will find and plan the route for you, telling you which road to take, stop where to charge up and for how long. You can't just run out the door for road trips but it can be done without spending too much time beforehand.
The heavy traffic commute people are well suited to switching to EVs. They stuck in traffic all day so with a EV they aren't idling wasting gas.
Leawood probably will chip in later saying what problem? He charges at home 100% of the time and have no need for public charging, infrastructure isn't an issue for him. But that's just his own usage case.
I can charge at home, and I don't do long road trips in my EVs, both of mine can cover a round trip to my other place so infrastructure aren't a concern to me either. The only time I plug in at a public charger is to take advantage of great parking locations. EV charger parking are even more convenient than Handicap parking here.
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