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VW is building out chargers as part of the diesel scandal settlement.

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/our-plan

Funny enough, that's the one current huge investment outside of Tesla in charging infrastructure. If it takes a car company cheating on emissions and being forced to invest in electric, then all of them are going to be doomed to playing catch up.

For sure. I personally think that Electrify America is a stop gap. In the longer term, I would expect to see businesses that already exist near highway exits start to build out DCFC to lure potential customers.

I live in the southeastern US. I have been saying for two years now that Cracker Barrel should be adding DC Fast chargers to each of its restaurants' parking lots. Who cares if the car takes 45 minutes to charge if I can grab a nice meal while I wait.

I used this strategy on my recent Florida-Texas roundtrip in a Model 3. The Baton Rouge Tesla Supercharger is located next to an Acme Oyster House location. I ate a nice lunch while the car charged. I pulled in with a 10% charge and pulled out with about a 90% charge. It was a heck of a lot nicer than eating a hamburger while driving.

Yeah, and they’re slow rolling it and plan to charge high prices. It’s frustrating to me as an EV owner. But perfectly logical if you want to appear to be doing something while in fact protecting fossil fuel car sales.

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