Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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This is a fair comment, but the question remains as to whether or not E-vehicles are better environmentally than gas vehicles - which partially depends on where the electricity comes from.
But the fueling station bottleneck can be solved by swapping in fully charged batteries in exchange for the ones that have been depleted.
Dude, I can’t even change my own battery in less than an hour because of the way my car is designed. So unless gas stations just have a half dozen onsite mechanics and thr batteries are all in easy to get to locations which just makes them easier targets for theft, then you are looking at still having this shit take too long for a swap, faster than a total charge but unless the stations just have a spare thousand batteries to swap and then charge the new ones this shit will not work.
I'm not claiming that lithium batteries are the way to go - but rather that the batteries and cars can be designed for a fast swap, and swap stations can be built for charging and swaps. And swaps could be done in about a minute.
And you're right that with current designs it would be logistically impossible.
This is a limitation. The upside for ev's is that they can be charged at home overnight. If you often surpass 250+ miles a day, petroleum vehicles are the superior choice at the moment.
100 miles in a day is a busy day for most. So an EV would mean not having to stop at gas or charging stations. If a longer trip was planned, then a petroleum vehicle would be preferred.
I get that charging while at home is the best plan, but you have to remember most people are fucking retards who will absolutely forget to plug in their car and then wake up to a dead battery just like they don’t always plug in their phone. Sure you could say the same about someone not buying gas, but afain that person could walk down to a gas station buy a couple of gallons, walk back and then have enough to get to work and maybe only be a late, there is no way you could charge long enough to get you through most commutes there and back in the time it would take to make going into work worth it.
There’s a stronger argument to transition as much work as possible to work from home than there is to get everyone in ev’s if the concern was impact on the pollution.