On Friday, July 16, 2021 at 3:14:35 AM UTC-4, kawaga wrote:
> Electric car needs charging station outside of houses, shops, and offices,
> and along road distances to recharge battery.
>
> The challenge is how to provide them without surging with power drops from
> tapping the overhead power lines.
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> Also, recharging electricity of car battery takes time - something like one
> to two hours of recharging time.
>
> Electric car's recharging takes up car lot space and public parking's
> charging time.
>
> As electric car creates long waiting time for recharging, it can cause
> interruption in travel continuation.
The US is behind the curve in providing charging stations for EVs.
"There are about 42,000 public charging stations in the U.S., but only about 5,000 are considered direct-current fast chargers, according to the Department of Energy. The rest require roughly eight hours to fully charge longer-range batteries.
The higher cost of fast-charging stations is an issue President Joe Biden’s administration will have to take into account as it develops incentives to encourage companies and governments to build more charging stations. The administration’s goal is to have 500,000 charging stations nationwide by 2030."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/electrify-america-to-double-ev-charging-stations-by-2025/2021/07/13/29ce4512-e3e9-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html
EU nations are better.
"The charging network is growing, but there are significant differences in
deployment across the EU 29 In its 2017 action plan on alternative fuels infrastructure, the Commission
estimated that the number of publicly accessible charging points would have to
increase from the 118 000 available at the time to 440 000 in 2020, and to about
2 million in 2025. The 2019 Green Deal updated the estimate for 2025 to 1 million
public charging points. The 2020 Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy identified a
need for 3 million public charging points by 2030. "
https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR21_05/SR_Electrical_charging_infrastructure_EN.pdf