Spot on, Robert. MW
On 12 Jun 2014, at 15:28, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > My 2 cents. > > Anyone who buys an EV with the idea of routine public charging does not > understand the value promise of an EV. Why hassle with "public charging > stations" when the whole idea of abandoning gas was to avoid public gas > stations??? She says herself that she does not drive much. And a full days > travel is within a single charge. Yet she wont plug in at home because it > "takes too long" ? Surely she has to sleep. > > All this focus on public charging when the typical American car spends 21 > hours a day parked (mostly at home or at work) provides more than 80 miles > of daily charging opportunity just plugging into a 120v outlet (at home or > at work)... Since she visits the same friends, just bring along an > extension cord to reach her outlet and bring along a cup of coffee or 50 > cents to pay for the electricity. > > We have to educate people (not the 1% that drive EV's) but the other 99% who > have OUTLETS that the average US cost to charge and EV from a 120v outlet is > about 15 cents an hour (10c/kWh electricity). Sooner or later everyone will > have an EV friend that comes to visit and would benefit from a charge. > > Bob, WB4aPR > _______________________________________________ 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)
