"Perfect is the enemy of good" -- Voltaire,
Living on an island harder than most people realize. In 2013 we hit 65¢ per kWh because the St. Croix power plant was burning diesel fuel to create electricity. We had solar to help offset it but that first $1,100 electric was a shocker.
Our old house was 1200 sq ft and had to have the AC running 24/7 for 10 months out if the year. Average bill? Over $600. I just paid $3.55 per gallon for 87 octane gas. Yeah it’s not cheap but lord ... we never hit $1100.
no thanks some people pay that for a whole year.
That is a great thing.Community services can help solve this. In a Baltimore community near Federal Hill, they have installed a free 50kW DCFC at the local library to help solve this problem. The neighborhoods have almost all on-street parking.
Doesn't have to be perfect. But doing something that's not good for one's new expensive car is kinda the opposite.
Very wise.
I'll reiterate something I've said before: you are not speaking out of experience. This became much less of an issue once I actually started driving a BEV and seeing that it is not as inconvenient as I had expected and that much of range anxiety was unfounded.
Granted but driving a car wears it out. For some, the practical use case involves much more DC fast charging that it does for others. As infrastructure develops, more people will have access to charging, perhaps L2 at work. That will cut down on how often they need to use L3.
No, it is very expensive - thus the rate double what you pay
This was my experience as well. I was totally convinced that I needed 250 miles of range before I would consider a BEV. I then ended up buying one with less than half that range.....because it was brand new and the dealership was asking $16k. I figured I would give it a try for that price and worst case I sell the car and admit defeat. Best case is the car meets or exceeds my needs and I drive emission free on a daily basis.
I think that the range would not be such a what-if if somehow the tech gets good enough where the loss of battery year to year is as minimum as can be.
Like if they built in a big buffer and encourage you to L2 charge instead of DCFC on a regular basis? ?
But doesn't that contradict the whole point of what you posted above about L3 chargers on the streets for apartment dwellers? Wouldn't the point of that be to be used as their routine charging all the time?
For some, they will accept the added battery degradation of using L3 full time. For others, such community charging infrastructure is part of their solution, not the entire solution. Even if I knew I could do most of my charging on L2s at work, having a neighborhood L3 for times I needed it could make BEV adoption more palatable. I’m in favor of providing lots of options. For apartment or crowded city-dwellers, a neighborhood L3 can be an important part of the solution.
