• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Charge speed is also extremely important. People keep waxing on about it only takes 15min to charge, but that’s is 3-4x as long as pumping gas.

    Imagine if we all switched to electrical with those charge times, gas stations would become clogged almost immediately.

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      3 months ago

      Keep in mind gas stations wouldn’t have the same day-to-day demand that they do now. Most people will charge overnight, and the long-haul charge points or tourist destinations would be where things clog up.

    • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      95% of charging would be done at home, since I get tons of energy from the sun. I have a feeling many other people would be doing the same. Highway stations are a different story though.

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        3 months ago

        Non EV owners can’t grok how convenient home charging is, and the reality that station charging is a general rarity.

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      3 months ago

      We literally can’t all switch to electric right now so that’s not a problem 😉 but yeah, if I do try to imagine it, I imagine a world where most people charge their cars at home or at work, so the only problem to solve is upping the charging capacity along certain long distance tourist routes. But we can build lots of lovely high speed rail to help decongest those routes 😋

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      3 months ago

      Most people on long-term road trips time their stops with meals anyway. If this became a reality, and charging infrastructure got directly built in to parking spaces at rest stops, then they can probably tolerate a 15 minute wait ti charge while they eat lunch.