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      02-20-2020, 08:39 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by mkoesel View Post
Like I say, its the recharge time that's the major differentiator. You don't worry about about being late for an important engagement because it might take an hour or more to fill the ICE vehicle with fuel. You just don't. And as a corollary, no one is anxious about buying an ICE vehicle because that one time they almost ran out of gas and had to turn off the accessories to make it home. It's just not an issue. It's not a thing that makes you pause at the dealership.

If the charge time gets addressed, that fixes everything. It's really that simple. And conversely, until it does, EVs are simply not going to see adoption in appreciable numbers.
So even if you could charge in the time it takes to fill a tank of gas, the infrastructure that would have to be put into place to support those charging rates is the problem. Let's say that every gas station put in a enough fast chargers to accommodate a 50% market share of EV's. The power supply would be staggering. Think about large filling stations along major highways, there would actually have to be larger transmission lines installed to support them.
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