Damon Henry via EV wrote:
I'm not sure EV charging stations will ever be as prolific as gas stations are
now. There will always be a significant amount of people who charge primarily
at home, so the demand will be less... Don't know if that is good or bad, but I
know very few people have their own gas pumps.
I sure hope so, Damon! But I also know the vested interests in the oil
and auto industries have a powerful urge to "rig" things so we can't
charge at home. They have the money and lobbies to get the laws written
*their* way. You can just imagine the arguments they will make:
- Home charging cheats on taxes. Governments won't get its fuel taxes.
- Charging is dangerous. It must be done at "safe" locations like
public filling station.
- Home charging will overload the electric grid. It must be regulated to
prevent brownouts and failures.
- EVs must have patented/licensed/regulated charging facilities that
must be regularly inspected and approved. People can't have their own
gas pumps; so they can't have their own EVSE's either.
The gas-buying public at large will agree with all of these claims. Many
will even loudly defend anything that disadvantages "them tree-hugging
job-killin' liberal socialist EV drivers". In constrast, EV drivers are
an insignificant minority with essentially no lobbying power.
Sigh...
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Geniuses remove it. -- Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming"
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