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Has the problem of having to recharge rapidly been solved?

What if I need to drive somewhere in a hurry but my car isn't charged?

What if there's a power outage or I forget to plug in my car overnight?

I'm not saying these are blockers, but they're not convenient.

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Plugging your car in overnight is a matter of course. You drive home and plug it in every day. It becomes muscle memory like anything else you do in life. You can rarely forget of course, but it's not like it's inconvenient. And for daily driving you can actually do many days of daily driving already without charging on standard electric vehicles today already, that'll have improved in 15 years as well.

In Tesla's new announcement the other day one of the other things they mentioned is like a 10x increase in battery charge times with the new cell design which will be ready in 3 years or so. So give it time.

And if you don't have a garage?

Replace parking meters with pay-to-use chargers I guess. If you're randomly street parking it'll be pretty difficult until they're ubiquitous.

Unless you don’t have parking meters where you park... It’s very rare that I park somewhere with parking meters near.

For myself and many others, our cars will never see a driveway, a garage, or any place that could have a charging station. I think this will be a hugely limiting factor in adoption.

As it stands, electric car owners are home owners more often than ICE purchasers and I don’t see that changing - maybe ever.

yeah unfortunately i can't afford an electric vehicle until i can afford a house w/ a garage which seems like a prereq to charging it.

Or you gotta convince your apartment complex to install them.

Easier said than done (I'm not familiar with the specifics, but my understanding is that many buildings with the cladding that led to Grenfell burning down remain unfixed)

my complex has like 1 or 2 for hundreds of residents

Do you mean a 10x increase in battery charge rate?

This is a big thing. Not just because I can and would forget to plug in at home, but a very large amount of people just aren't going to be able to charge at home. If you find out you need to take a longer trip than you had planned for quickly it would be hard to sit for an hour while the vehicle "quick" charges

> What if there's a power outage or I forget to plug in my car overnight?

Is making a trip to a gas station just to fill your car up a good use of time? Or is it better to accept responsibility and make sure you've plugged it in at home? Have you ever forgotten to fill up your gas tank and been stuck on the road? C'mon.

> Have you ever forgotten to fill up your gas tank and been stuck on the road? C'mon.

Very nearly, yes. I imagine this hits home for folks with ADHD.

Do you remember to put gas in your internal combustion car today? It will become something you just remember to do. Companies will start offering drive-out quick-charge services, and it'd probably be an option from AAA.

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