Democrat calls only 7 EV-charging stations deployed under US program 'pathetic'
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The usual playbook:
Issue press release announcing new Federal support for X (in this case, charging stations).
Move on.
Repeat as necessary.
It means that the states most desperately in need of more EV charging infrastructure are the least likely to move forward because they're run by the party that doesn't care because most of their constituents don't care. But the minority who live there who need it, and the people who need to drive through the state pay the price. Huge screw up as with almost everything EV related that the government has done.
Requires a complete mindset change to be ok with the trade off of 75% less range in 3x the time. I can get 380 miles of range in less than 5 mins and 90% of the time I don’t want to multitask during that time but if I really needed a restroom and a drink, etc…I could do it within that same <5 min timeframe. So I don’t really buy in to this as a “benefit” when I hear people touting it. It just seems to be EV apologetics.
I would never tell someone that road tripping in an EV today is as easy as it is in an ICE car for a number of reasons, the main one being infrastructure. And that's not what we were talking about.
If you really want to talk about ICE refueling vs. BEV charging stops. In the real world, going to the restroom and/or getting food/beverage will take longer than 5 minutes most of the time. You end up waiting in line a lot, if you're done refueling, you have to move your car to a parking space, etc. In the real world the difference in the length of time you're stopped for is not much if anything. What is different is the frequency of stops since an ICE car can take on 300+ miles of range much faster. So then it's a question if are you someone who stops only when you have to in order to refuel? In that case of course an ICE vehicle is still faster to road trip. But if you're someone who wants to stop every ~2-2.5 hours (which a lot of people are) then you're not gonna lose any additional time driving an EV. But you will have the annoyance of infrastructure being far, far less common and in the case of CCS vehicles far, far less reliable.
The worst part, for me? Nobody cares, nobody looks into it, and no one is held accountable. It's just a slow, gradual decline while we imagine things that would be nice, skim money off the economy to fund them, and then throw our hands up in the air and act surprised when the money catches on fire.