and if left to the consumers, it will be decades before ev is viable for everyone.
just for an example. I looked into this a good bit. Say I wanted to buy a tesla model S. (I don't but I checked into this for my own knowledge). I can charge it from a level 1 (110v) standard outlet. The charge rate is 3 miles per hour, in other words it takes one hour to charge to an effective range of 3 miles. It's about 40 miles to/from work. At 3 MPH charge rate, it would take roughly 13 hours to charge, assuming I didn't go anywhere else, didn't use the heat pump (a/c), didn't get stuck in traffic, etc. If I did a normal day, go somewhere for lunch, then go out after work for groceries, etc, it would never charge back up fully on level 1 charging, and by the end of the week would be stone dead, car would have to SIT all weekend to charge back up so it could be used again Monday to go to work. Great, put a Level 2 charging "station" in. In other words, install a NEMA 1450 outlet in the garage to charge the car, charges twice as fast roughly 6 miles per hour rate. I could do that. Except, I'm in an older house, 100A service. No space left in the panel for another pair of breakers (would require two). Because it's a 100A service, it also has the appropriate size wire from the house to the utility pole, in the appropriately sized conduit. It's a 245 foot run, under two driveways. So in order to put another breaker in, electrician says I'll have to upgrade to 2" conduit, 2/0 copper or 3/0 Aluminum wire (minimum), of course it has to go under the driveways so the driveway will have to be dug up to do the pipe/trench. Then the panel, outlet, and charger cord-which is about $600. Grand total? Close to $20,000. I don't have that money. Neither do many other people. So this begs the question, how to those of us who don't have the money, plan to do it? WE CAN'T. I realize everyone's situation is different. Lets think about this too. Apartments. Say a complex has 100 residents. 100 cars. Say every single car needs to be charged all at the same time (at night usually). Remember, currently night time is off-peak time for electric usage, but that will certainly change. Last year we had rolling power outages, and Entergy was asking people to "conserve" electric usage. Who's going to pay for the infrastructure "improvements"? I guarantee it won't be the government, it'll be you and I, the consumers, and in the end EV will have zero benefit to anyone except the higher-up's. Zero. Yet consumers will have higher costs of living.
The more I think and research this, the more pissed off I get, and I think I'll quit now before I get too pissed!
