“There will be one in your neighbourhood” That’s fantastic if there is only a handful of EVs in your neighbourhood, but if every man and his dog all want to charge their EVs on the way to work at 7:30am, they will still be there are 7:30pm, in a queue.
but if every man and his dog all want to charge their EVs on the way to work at 7:30am, they will still be there are 7:30pm, in a queue.
People need to look at public EV charging differently. It’s not like a petrol station, you shouldn’t need to use a public charger and do a big fill up once a week for work commutes.
You come home from work, you plug your car in at home. 10 hours later it has refilled the charge you used up today, and you’re ready to go to work in the morning, fully charged.
To put that into numbers:
A standard 15 amp circuit should be able to put 20kwhr into an EV battery overnight (in 8-10 hours).
A Polestar 2 uses about 18kwhr per 100km. so with your 20kwhr you should be able to drive an hour/50km each way in city traffic and make that charge up again each night.
The only people really needing public EV charging are those with on-street parking, unit/apartment dwellers (for now, until apartment infrastructure gets upgraded, could be a decade still), and longer distance travellers.
That is correct, but people need time to adapt. If your lifestyle is; Drive to work, buy coffee, drive home, buy groceries, cook dinner, Netflix and chill, charging sn EV overnight is fine.
If your lifestyle deviates at all from a regular schedule like this, you will need fast chargers, a hybrid or an ICE vehicle. If you go overnight at weekends or tow a trailer regularly, a Hybrid or and ICE vehicle are the only options.
There are home chargers that do 7kw/h with installation. Last I checked it was a few grand so quite cheap all things considered.
Yes, I sell them at work. Most people who have spent all their disposable on EV repayments are reluctant to spend even a couple grand on an EV charger. The few that have factored the cost of a charger into their car loan often bring them back because they didn’t realise that they are only useful if your home has 3-phase power and off-street (preferably garaged) parking.
It is amazing how many people buy EVs because “it is the right thing to do” without doing any research or due diligence. They think that Fast Chargers are a suitable replacement for a petrol bowsers.
