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How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations? (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay dad, just tell us the punchline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Currently there are nearly 190k charging ports (public + private) and nearly 70k charging stations

If we replace all gas cars with electric, we would need about 850k more charging stations.

Currently, there are 240 more charging stations planned.

They also say many existing charging stations are poorly maintained and/or don't work.

They alsoalso say 20% of Americans report that they don't have access to consistent off street chargers for night time charging, and I am fairly confident that number is a huge underestimate.

A huge number of people live in apartments that have none, or at best a small percentage of parking stalls that are or can be set up to support EVs.

I feel that that number must only be sampling current actual EV owners (ie, basically the double or above median area income, environmentally conscious, well to do urbanite/suburbanite crowd) and not people generally, and 20% of current EV owners do not have the ability to charge overnight.

Go on zillow and look up how many apartments in any US city you can afford on the median wage of an area that support EV in their parking lot/garage.

Ok, now in for those you've found, every apartment complex like that I have ever heard of of seen offers maybe 5, 10 percent of their parking stalls as EV capable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not here to disagree with what you’re saying, but I do like to point out; I think the low number of planned charging stations currently planned for the next year and built over the last year is mostly due to the war between CCS and NACS. Now that NACS has won out I think we’re going to see a boost in planned stations again as they prepare to switch. We’ve just been in a holding pattern while trying to figure that whole thing out. I thought for sure CCS would win because Tesla wouldn’t want to give up their charger… oh well, we all win!