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Somehow this article misses the fact that electric cars are charged every day when parked at home. In the typical scenario of a car used to get into the city and back, it will not need to ever hook up anywhere in the city and will not run out of charge for the day.

When the article in the end complains that it will waste so much time I just wonder how the daily hookup at home compares to the weekly gas station visit. I'd say it pretty much evens out.

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No accident the article misses facts, it's a propaganda rag: https://spectator.org/about/

Blech. That explains the (willful) ignorance.

Doesn't this assume that everyone owns a house? How do you propose to do this in an apartment building? Sometimes you don't even have enough parking for an apartment building and need to park elsewhere. That sounds to me like charging would be rather difficult at home. We're also not talking about an insignificant amount of people - 42% of Europeans live in an apartment. In some countries it's over 60%.[0]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Once more people have electric cars there will be more curbside chargers.

How well do those hold up to the cold and poor handling? We don't want them just in the US, right? Ideally we'd want countries like Russia and Ukraine and even poorer countries to use electric cars too.

Apartments often come with parking spaces. They will need to be fitted with charging sockets but I don't see any difficulties beyond the small investment this takes.

Often, but not always. In my city most apartment buildings don't even have enough normal parking spaces for the cars. People park in places like the parking lots of supermarkets.

Everybody I know (3 - not a significant sample) with an electric car has at some point had to take "the other car" because their electric wasn't changed. Most often it is get home from work at night only to remember some dinner you are supposed to go to that you don't have enough charge remaining to get to. Sometimes it is your forget to plug it in (this probably only happens the first few weeks before you get the habit of plugging it in every night)

Sure that can happen. Much like it can happen that one has to detour to refuel the car. It's a failure at planning and the risk is bigger with electric cars due to the shorter range and longer refueling times. Weirdly the article treated it as the normal case. As if everybody will want to recharge at the most inopportune time.

Indeed. Most EV owners eventually realize that having to hunt for a gas station at the end of a tank an onerous requirement of ICE car ownership. They rarely charge outside their own garage.

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