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Gas nears $5. Why aren’t electric vehicles selling in the US?
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I got fussed at for pointing this out:
Gas stations are usually positioned close to roads with big obvious signage, because their business model was developed before humans went extinct.
Now that it's just us phone tumors, electric car charging stations tend to be in odd locations off the beaten path. If you don't have an app to tell you it's there, you wouldn't know it was. Which is why there are several EV charging networks scattered around, and a lot of ICE car owners don't know it.
The EV charging industry has done a better job concealing its existence from the American public than the fucking NSA.
EV chargers are scattered around in a way that gas stations aren't because EV chargers aren't their own separate stop the way gas stations are. With gas, the refilling process is short enough that you can reasonably just stand around and wait while it happens. But with EV charging, it takes long enough that you need some other reason to be at the place where the charger is, and so having nothing attached but a shitty convenience store isn't good enough. The chargers end up relatively out of the way because they need to be put in places people already want to spend time at for other reasons.
You just made the point. EV chargers are hard to find.
I wasn't trying to refute it; I was trying to explain it (being for a different reason than the other person thought).