Martin, Probably for same reason that my wife gets concerned while driving our Leaf on a 60 mile drive...“rekkeviddeangst” or “range anxiety”! Clearly unfounded in both cases, yet even after dozens of such trips, they still experience the anxiety. Not sure how to overcome this, other than to have as many DCQC units out there as we petrol stations (1 every 2 or 3 miles here in the states!).
-Tom -Tom On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Martin WINLOW <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm... > > Ms Blomberg lives in As (according to her Facebook page) which lies 30km > to the south of central Oslo. Given that the range of the C-Zero (Ciroen > re-badged Mitsubishi i-Miev) is a good 100km (EPA... or 160km on the > Japanese equivalent) I am puzzled why she is so distraught. > > MW > > > > On 26 Dec 2013, at 12:08, brucedp5 wrote: > > > > > > > http://qz.com/159595/norway-electric-cars/ > > Norway is starting to have more electric cars than it can handle > > By Leo Mirani December 20, 2013 > > > > [image > > http://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/oslo.jpg > > You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to get a charging spot. > > Reuters/Alister Doyle > > ] > > > > When Hilde Charlotte Blomberg reached the University of Oslo last Friday, > > the first thing she did was to send a mass email to the Department of > > Informatics: > > > > I arrived at work now and all the spaces for electric cars are taken. > If > > you think your car is charged, I would appreciate if you could park > > somewhere else. I won’t get home if I can’t charge my car. I am standing > > downstairs and waiting and hoping that someone will come > > > > Blomberg drives a Citroen C-Zero. Hers is one of 15,000 electric cars on > the > > roads of Norway. That’s up from around 10,000 last year and just 6,000 in > > 2011. Yet the very things that made it so attractive to buy an electric > car > > are now under pressure. Two incentives in particular have become victims > of > > their own success: the ability to drive in bus lanes and free public > > charging spots. > > > > More cars than buses > > > > According to Budstikka (link in Norwegian), a local newspaper for the > rich > > suburbs outside Oslo where the majority of electric cars are sold, > electric > > vehicles now dominate the bus lanes into Oslo. During rush hour on Dec. > 3, > > they made up 75% of the 829 vehicles that drove on the bus lane. After > > accounting for taxis, two-wheelers and mini-buses, all of which have the > > right to use the lane, buses made up only 7.5% of the traffic in the > lane. > > According to the paper, bus lanes can handle only about 1,000 vehicles > per > > hour because of the many entries, exits and bus stops. > > > > Charging facilities are also over-subscribed. The total number of public > > charging facilities in Norway is only 5,000. Oslo, the capital, has a > mere > > 500, says Bjørn Gjestvang, an automotive industry expert at KPMG Norway. > > Private businesses have their own facilities, but those too are filling > up > > quickly. Blomberg’s department, for instance, has six charging spots but > on > > a normal day five of those will be occupied. > > > > The (gridlocked) road ahead > > > > Things are only going to get worse. Car manufacturers have cottoned on to > > the popularity of electric cars in Norway and they’re piling in. Tesla > > entered the market this year and has been wildly successful. Volkswagen’s > > e-Up went on sale in November and it is also coming out with an electric > > version of the perennially popular Golf. BMW’s i3 will hit the roads next > > year. > > > > Norway is due to reconsider its incentive structure for electric cars in > > 2017. Neither the ministry of the environment nor the ministry of > transport > > and communications responded to requests for comment, but watchers of > > electric-car trends in Norway suggest that the growing number of electric > > cars could very well lead to some sort of rationalization of incentives. > “I > > am afraid that within one year this problem will be so big that the > > government will be forced to change the rules,” says Bjart Holtsmark of > > Statistics Norway. > > > > Meanwhile, electric cars—and the anxieties that come with them—have > become > > part of the Norwegian psyche. Second place on a list of words of the year > > (link in Norwegian) produced by Norway’s Language Council this year was > > “rekkeviddeangst” or “range anxiety”: The fear that your electric car > > battery will run out before you make it to a charging station. > > [© http://qz.com] > > > > > > > > > > For all EVLN posts use: > > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date > > > > Here are today's archive-only EV posts: > > > > EVLN: Cities can save big money by switching to EVs > > EVLN: OpConnect keeps U.S. Navy EVs Charged > > EVLN: Vending machine dispenses Chinese Kandi @$3.25hr r:75mi ts:50mph > > EVLN: China Tesla website and dealership are up, and taking pre-orders > > + > > EVLN: Why Do EVs have 12V PbSO4 Aux Batts When Li-ion Is Available? > > > > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EVs-dominate-the-bus-lanes-into-Oslo-no-more-EVs-than-EVSE-tp4666906.html > > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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