My brother recently asked me a question that I didn’t have an answer to. In urban areas, most people park on the streets or in shared garages that have maybe 2 chargers for 100+ cars. Electric cars also take longer to charge. With the car electrification push, even with rapid charging, it seems like a real risk that chargers will become overwhelmed and have long wait times since you’d need ~5-10x as many chargers to handle the same amount at peak throughput. Swapping batteries seems like a no go. Is the expected solution to build waaay more chargers than we have fuel stations today? That’s setting aside the problem than many power grids can’t handle that many cars plugged in at once.
It seems like we’re massively ignoring the infrastructure problems of mass electrification. We should electrify, but I think the infrastructure piece is an overlooked unsexy undertaking that is often ignored by politicians because it’s too complicated and their constituents don’t complain about like they do with electric cars for that reason.
It seems like we’re massively ignoring the infrastructure problems of mass electrification. We should electrify, but I think the infrastructure piece is an overlooked unsexy undertaking that is often ignored by politicians because it’s too complicated and their constituents don’t complain about like they do with electric cars for that reason.