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The expectations that it is a requirement for apartments and office buildings to have chargers on-premise in order to make EVs viable is ridiculous. We don’t have gas/petrol stations now in those places.

The solution is to require all gas/petrol stations to install EV chargers. The network already exists.

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I disagree. I think electric cars are fundamentally different. If 50 people want to fill up a petrol car, they go to a petrol station with 10 pumps and they're all out in 15m because filling doesn't take long at all.

You can probably get more chargers in the same area as pumps, however it takes so much longer to charge a car that those 50 people would be there for hours.

I think the solution to electric cars is everyone charges their car when they're not using it, so lots of on street chargers and charging at home for people with a driveway.

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