Gas Prices

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Originally Posted by BCPhil

Is "several" really enough?

An 80% charge in 30 minutes isn't terrible, until you have to wait for 3 people in front of you take their half hour. And what do you do when you get to a charger, and the guy's taken off for a few hours and you can't get the spot no matter how long you are willing to wait?

In my opinion, no it's not enough, there need to be more.

Several gas stations are piloting L3 chargers, I'll post a link if I can find the article again. They don't want to lose the convenience store $ when they lose the gas customers.

You are right that a gas up is quite a lot faster at the moment than a charge - but see my post from yesterday about changing habits. Comparing possible EV charging lineup waits against 5 minutes for a gasup isn't quite an equal comparison. We just did a 1000km roadtrip and had to wait for a gas pump all 3 times we filled up (couldn't quite make it home on the 2nd tank). Waits can be expected with both sources, from time to time. The good news is that chargers can go just about anywhere, in a distributed fashion. Gas pumps can't.

Charging infrastructure can easily keep up with demand, if there's a will.