The fastest way to get more people to buy electric vehicles
America's EV charging station infrastructure is woefully lacking.
https://www.vox.com/22463219/electric-vehicles-charging-station-infrastructure
and you're gonna need a level 2 charger at home.
1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas because charging their carsat home is a slowhassle, research shows
https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-owners-switching-gas-charging-a-hassle-study-2021-4
I saw this study or one like it over a month ago. IMO, it is a bigger problem than 20% in the long term because we haven't really penetrated the more urban dwellers living in apartment complexes with parking lots. Their landlords aren't going to provide charging stations for free or let them run cords across the parking lots. My guess is that EV purchases so far have been dominated by suburban homeowners.
> suburban
And most suburban 2 car households will probably keep one gas car because of longer distance trips and one electric for the foreseeable future.
Short term: you can't even get an electrician to wire a new home, good luck finding one to install a Level 2 charger in your garage. But note, there is a business opportunity there for a company that only installs home chargers within a reasonable time.
Do we still have 3 - 4 different proprietary charging stations: Tesla, Toyota and somebody else? Can you just carry around an adapter or are you locked in?
We really need to saturate the cities and suburbs with fast charging stations like we once did with gas/service stations and worry about lining the transcontinental Interstates later. Most EV's are going to be used locally for now.