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Originally Posted by CyrusKafaiwu
It doesn’t have to be an OnRoute. As long as there is proper amenities around, I think it is a good placement for EV chargers.
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It doesn't have to be an OnRoute but they certainly make the best sense to scale because they are already designed to cater to long distance driving. Imagine, it wasn't an EV and we were discussing where to install gas stations. Putting them at service centres would be the obvious response. It's the same here.
And scale will matter when it comes to wholesale adoption.
We're only at ~2% EV penetration? Imagine 10%. 20%.
30%. The infrastructure demands start looking quite different. Even a lot of those Tesla Supercharger locations might face challenges with adding more stalls as they start maxing out on grid service at their locations. So at some point charging networks will have to be designed and built for large scale use. Not just for a small niche of drivers (or a subset of those who only drive a certain brand).
What's interesting about the Gridserve station was that private capital financed that. Doesn't seem to have attracted much government grants. Seems to me there's probably a case to do something like fund OPG grid upgrades to the OnRoutes and then let a private investor build out and manage the chargers there. Similar to how Canadian Tire sells gas at the OnRoutes. Give them the grid capacity and they can keep adding chargers as demand grows.
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