I blame Elon Musk, who has done incredible damage not only to his own brand, but to the idea of EVs.
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I blame Elon Musk, who has done incredible damage not only to his own brand, but to the idea of EVs.
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Interesting. The place that matters for chargers is usually home, where people install their own — public chargers are basically for when you’re on a road trip, and wouldn’t have charged up the night before.
That’s a very single-family-home perspective. Lots of people live in apartments, only some of which provide assigned off-street parking at all, but there’s generally no way to install your own charger. Public charging infrastructure is absolutely critical for all apartment dwellers to be able to consider EVs.
For sure, as is apartment owner support for installing chargers, which is mostly what I’ve seen around here
Sure, that can help, although I think it mostly counts as public charging infrastructure since it’s out of the control of the EV owner.
It also doesn’t help for the many units in my city that rely on street parking. And it’s an extra feeling of uncertainty if you’re thinking about buying an EV but you change apartment leases every year or three - it’s like getting a dog and thereby limiting the available pool of apartments that you might consider in the future.
All of that is to say that true public charging is really critical for a lot of people to feel secure enough to invest new car dollars into an EV, so presidential headwinds against it are devastating.