I find it the opposite. If people want evs to take off, you cant expect people to charge for a long time at “gas stations”. When the threshold for charger saturation is met, cars should have smaller batteries to charge quicker, make cars cheaper, easier to replace, make cars lighter the list goes on.
Large batteries is solely a holdoff because such infrastructure for charging doesnt exist yet.
If you weren’t I wouldnt expect you to understand that what you are addressing is simply a non-issue to EV drivers.
99% of the time, we don’t stop to ‘fill up’. Ever. At all.
We charge at home. When we leave for the day, we’ve got all the charge we need to make it there and back again. Having to take time out of your day to go to a nasty parking lot is something gas-powered plebes think is normal. Not EV owners.
And this is exactly it:
cars should have smaller batteries to charge quicker, make cars cheaper, easier to replace, make cars lighter the list goes on.
You are 1000% wrong here. With more battery, I just finish whatever I need to do for the day, park at home, plug it in like I would an electric tooth brush, and forget about it until the next time I need it. In the rare cases I need to drive more than 250 miles in a day, I’ll find a super charger while I grab lunch.
But those are edge cases, they aren’t 99% of use. If EV’s have 250-300 miles of range, no one is charging on the day-to-day. They’re waiting till the get home and its not even a consideration.
Your thinking is reflective of ICE owner thinking, where ‘filling up’ outside of the home is a requirement and can’t be avoided.
This just isnt the case with an EV. Having to charge outside the home simply isn’t a requirement. Charging overnight is plenty for the next day.
In a household with 2 evs, but the condition is that everyone owns a home in which they have the charging station in place. The line gets murkier when you have situations where youre living in an apartment, condominium and such which might not have it installed as the date to move over starts to inch closer.
Yes most people charge at home, because theyre users who are in position who can make that decision. Its a position that the general populace cannot all hit yet. Its sort of a confirmation bias situation because those who can support it are the ones who can or already made the jump, but the ones who can’t clearly havent due to various reasons.
I find it the opposite. If people want evs to take off, you cant expect people to charge for a long time at “gas stations”. When the threshold for charger saturation is met, cars should have smaller batteries to charge quicker, make cars cheaper, easier to replace, make cars lighter the list goes on.
Large batteries is solely a holdoff because such infrastructure for charging doesnt exist yet.
The analogy doesn’t hold IMO. Most “fill ups” happen overnight while the car is parked at home, no waiting required.
Are you an EV owner?
If you weren’t I wouldnt expect you to understand that what you are addressing is simply a non-issue to EV drivers.
99% of the time, we don’t stop to ‘fill up’. Ever. At all.
We charge at home. When we leave for the day, we’ve got all the charge we need to make it there and back again. Having to take time out of your day to go to a nasty parking lot is something gas-powered plebes think is normal. Not EV owners.
And this is exactly it:
You are 1000% wrong here. With more battery, I just finish whatever I need to do for the day, park at home, plug it in like I would an electric tooth brush, and forget about it until the next time I need it. In the rare cases I need to drive more than 250 miles in a day, I’ll find a super charger while I grab lunch.
But those are edge cases, they aren’t 99% of use. If EV’s have 250-300 miles of range, no one is charging on the day-to-day. They’re waiting till the get home and its not even a consideration.
Your thinking is reflective of ICE owner thinking, where ‘filling up’ outside of the home is a requirement and can’t be avoided.
This just isnt the case with an EV. Having to charge outside the home simply isn’t a requirement. Charging overnight is plenty for the next day.
In a household with 2 evs, but the condition is that everyone owns a home in which they have the charging station in place. The line gets murkier when you have situations where youre living in an apartment, condominium and such which might not have it installed as the date to move over starts to inch closer.
Yes most people charge at home, because theyre users who are in position who can make that decision. Its a position that the general populace cannot all hit yet. Its sort of a confirmation bias situation because those who can support it are the ones who can or already made the jump, but the ones who can’t clearly havent due to various reasons.