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10/12/2019 at 2:06pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 07/12/2019
Yep 664DaveS, I guess the same thing happened when fossil cars first arrived on the roads, with much hilarity from passing coach and horse drivers, as fossil car drivers waited to fill up at the one and only fuel station in town.
It took even longer to water and feed a horse. The stage coaches did have a system in which they swapped horses for fresh ones, which did not take very long. However, the equivalent for EVs would be to swap the battery for a fresh one but in their stupidity - sorry I meant wisdom - car makers are not following that method, which is why I'm not interested in getting an EV.
The picture you paint of early motorists queuing at "fuel stations" is untrue. There were no fuel stations, they bought petrol at chemist's shops and for long journeys they carried reserve cans on the running boards. In any case there were very few early motorists, just a few rich guys, so no queues.
Motoring as a form of mass transport grew slowly (over ~60 years) and the provision of petrol stations grew with it. However the EV fans want the move to EVs to happen very quickly, so the comparison is not valid. We can install chargers at existing filling stations and elsewhere, assuming the strengthening of the electricity supply, but the queueing problem remains unless you have about twenty times as many charge points as petrol pumps at present (assuming even the most optimistic charging times), and there is still the pain of the charging time itself. Home or streetside charging will help, but has its limits and is no use on a long journey.
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