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SandWitch · 26-30, F
In Sweden where I live, about 95% of all private vehicles are electric and there are solar-powered charging stations on every second street corner if you need one and even out on country roads. It's only in North America that EV's have not been introduced to the public correctly, in fact it was presented backwards... the cars came first and then the charging stations came second. Sweden and Norway installed the charging stations first, then introduced mass EV transit after that.
JudyS · 51-55, F
@SandWitch I agree 100% ... unless the USA installs millions of public EV charging stations, EV's will never be accepted by the masses. It only takes about 10 minutes to fill up my ICE vehicle whereas if I had an EV it would be hours to fully recharge the batteries. Even if I had a home EV charger, I am not going to make a 300 mile trip without knowing that I can find available EV chargers somewhere along my way.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@JudyS
Good point! I've been reading horror stories from people in Canada who have been having serious incidents with charging stations in the USA after crossing the Canada/US border while heading south on winter vacation. There have been at least a dozen reported cases where Canadians have purchased new Ford F150 EV pickup trucks in Canada with intentions of using EV charging stations in northern Montana after crossing the border which were said to be functioning normally as reported by their respective auto clubs.
After crossing the border from the Canadian mid-west into northern Montana however, they discovered that ALL of the EV charging stations in northern Montana had been de-commissioned and nobody knew about it! They were de-commissioned because they are privately owned facilities in the USA and when nobody was using them, the owners simply turned off the power and took the liberty of dismantling the charging station to then use the space for other purposes without reporting that they'd been shut down.
What followed was Canadian vacationers being unable to re-charge their battery after already traveling 300 miles on a single charge, who ended up going to a local Hertz rent-a-car facility in Montana, parking their truck at Hertz then renting a gas-powered car to continue on vacation for a few weeks or longer.
Upon returning to Hertz at the end of their vacations, they all had to hire a tow truck to have their new EV truck towed from Hertz in Montana back across the border to Canada to the nearest charging station on the Canadian side which was 200 miles away which was not covered by their Canadian auto club membership fee! That kind of BS is what scares off potential EV buyers right from the start, especially if they know they'll be traveling in remote areas with family.
Good point! I've been reading horror stories from people in Canada who have been having serious incidents with charging stations in the USA after crossing the Canada/US border while heading south on winter vacation. There have been at least a dozen reported cases where Canadians have purchased new Ford F150 EV pickup trucks in Canada with intentions of using EV charging stations in northern Montana after crossing the border which were said to be functioning normally as reported by their respective auto clubs.
After crossing the border from the Canadian mid-west into northern Montana however, they discovered that ALL of the EV charging stations in northern Montana had been de-commissioned and nobody knew about it! They were de-commissioned because they are privately owned facilities in the USA and when nobody was using them, the owners simply turned off the power and took the liberty of dismantling the charging station to then use the space for other purposes without reporting that they'd been shut down.
What followed was Canadian vacationers being unable to re-charge their battery after already traveling 300 miles on a single charge, who ended up going to a local Hertz rent-a-car facility in Montana, parking their truck at Hertz then renting a gas-powered car to continue on vacation for a few weeks or longer.
Upon returning to Hertz at the end of their vacations, they all had to hire a tow truck to have their new EV truck towed from Hertz in Montana back across the border to Canada to the nearest charging station on the Canadian side which was 200 miles away which was not covered by their Canadian auto club membership fee! That kind of BS is what scares off potential EV buyers right from the start, especially if they know they'll be traveling in remote areas with family.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@WillaKissing
That may have worked 60 years ago before the USA was deep in debt like it is today, but when your country has 80 and 85 year old Senators and Congressmen and women who are still hanging around and doing things like it was still 1964 in Washington, you're going to have highly incompetent people continuing to run your country just like they did in the good old days before 60% of every American tax dollar went toward paying the interest-only on the country's National Debt each year.
The reason there is no EV infrastructure already in place for all those new EV cars and trucks across America, is because the US government cannot afford it. After all, it sure isn't going to be the American oil companies who construct EV charging stations now, is it!
And that's exactly why the EV infrastructure has not been constructed across the USA prior to the release of EV cars to the masses. Who was going to pay for it? Everything was done backwards. The EV cars were introduced first, but they still haven't figured out how to pay for the charging stations without Washington paying for it. This resulted in there being no re-charging infrastructure in place in America for all those EV's your government is now mandating that everyone own by the year 2030.
And now the US government wants to go back and re-explore the moon since the last time they were there? Like, seriously? That sounds like crack-cocaine talk to me! 😂
That may have worked 60 years ago before the USA was deep in debt like it is today, but when your country has 80 and 85 year old Senators and Congressmen and women who are still hanging around and doing things like it was still 1964 in Washington, you're going to have highly incompetent people continuing to run your country just like they did in the good old days before 60% of every American tax dollar went toward paying the interest-only on the country's National Debt each year.
The reason there is no EV infrastructure already in place for all those new EV cars and trucks across America, is because the US government cannot afford it. After all, it sure isn't going to be the American oil companies who construct EV charging stations now, is it!
And that's exactly why the EV infrastructure has not been constructed across the USA prior to the release of EV cars to the masses. Who was going to pay for it? Everything was done backwards. The EV cars were introduced first, but they still haven't figured out how to pay for the charging stations without Washington paying for it. This resulted in there being no re-charging infrastructure in place in America for all those EV's your government is now mandating that everyone own by the year 2030.
And now the US government wants to go back and re-explore the moon since the last time they were there? Like, seriously? That sounds like crack-cocaine talk to me! 😂
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