The fear of running out of juice before you get where you’re going may be holding people back from making the leap from gas to electric
A Tesla supercharger station in Redondo Beach, California.Some people barely need public chargers. The roughly half of Americans who park in their own driveways or garages can plug in their cars when they get home each night and drive to work the next morning on a full charge. The cost is barely noticeable on their utility bill, about equivalent to running a refrigerator overnight., who don’t have reliable access to off-street parking, it’s more complicated.
Whether charging stations are needed to drive EV sales, or sales will impel new charging stations is seen as the industry’s central chicken and egg conundrum. But really, it’s a peanut butter and jelly problem, said Shazan Siddiqi, a technology analyst at market research firm IDTechEx. The two must go hand in hand.top-selling electric vehicle company
“It really is communicating to the non-EV drivers that EV charging exists,” he said. “If you buy an electric vehicle now, your car will tell you where all the charging locations are. If you are on the fence, are you going to feel comfortable buying an EV if you don't know where the chargers are?”Infrastructure isn’t the only thing that needs to adapt to a post-gas future. We also need to rewire our brains.
Eichberger likens it to charging your smartphone: “You go to the airport and you’re at 60 percent, you’re looking for an outlet, right? That 60 percent is gonna last you, but you want that top-off,” he said. “We believe that most people, if there’s a charger available when they get to a location, they’re going to plug in.”Vachira Vachira/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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