Can government encourage people to drive an electric car? Well, they can outlaw internal combustion engines, but they can't make people like it. We get the following story out of Australia. Thousands of public EV chargers are coming, but they could be unusable
Electric vehicles only make sense under very limited circumstances. One of those is that you have dedicated off-street parking, and can install a charger for your own use. In other words, you own your own home.
About a quarter of motorists don't have off-street parking, making it difficult to charge an EV at home.
In inner-city areas, the proportion is much higher.
At least in the area of Australia, that they are talking about, EVs are about 3 percent of the vehicles on the road.
Three percent.
So how much "dedicated" EV parking do you want to inflict on people?
A dedicated charger on Ocean St, North Bondi, has had 988 sessions over the past year.
A kilometre away, on Glenayr St, an undedicated charger of similar power has racked up 40 sessions. Another, on nearby Curlewis St, has had just four charging sessions in 12 months.
"A lot of the dedicated ones are getting between two and three sessions a day, and the undedicated ones are getting a session every two days," Mr Weinberg said.
Click thru for the details, if you want. I recommend the video, which hits the high points and covers a few other items as well.
This is the MGUY Australia video Another EV charging idea that will NEVER work
A regular petrol pump will deliver 30 liters of fuel per minute. And each of those liters will store over 30 megajoules of energy. And if you do the maths, that is an energy transfer of over 17 megawatts.
The fastest EV charging stations anywhere on the planet are barely a tenth of that and require vastly expensive infrastructure and massive connections to the grid. Yet any simple fuel nozzle in the world beats it by a factor of 10.
Compared to a Tesla quote fast charger unquote, it beats it by nearly 50 times. Do you start to see how far behind EV charging really is?
The video is 12 minutes long.
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