Is there any point explaining it to you? You'll just cry about something else anyway.

At last! If only more people were able to separate their opinion on his politics from their opinion on his business/engineering side.

Whenever any report suggests that buying a Prius is a better ideal than any EV... follow the money and see where the Toyota donation came from.

Toyota is third most obstructive company towards action climate change (after ExxonMobil and Chevron).

It's not to help rich people buy a $120,000 EV. It's to stop them from buying a $120,000 ICE.

Ignoring the fact that Stafford wasn't one of them, I found that someone had kept that graph up to date and it was pretty close as of mid-2018.

Tried to find another update, but it seems there has been no need - all are still alive and kicking!

https://i.imgur.com/G7DbbBi.pn...

Ah, I'm more familiar with the system used in CCS2/Type 2 regions (Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc) where AC charging stations are socket only. Allows for them to be very minimalist when not in use - (imagine this with the cable unplugged. The lack of cable, which is a damage/vandalism magnet - helps with the reliability.

That varies widely depending on the demographics of the city. Where I live, the majority of homes have off street parking, for example.

Still, the car is parked for 8+ hours on a regular basis, whether that be parked in an apartment building garage, on the street, at a workplace or somewhere... as we move towards 100% uptake, slow charging at these locations will become ubiquitous.

But weâ(TM)re talking about the hypothetical future where close to 100% of cars are EVs. They will at that point.

But you also need 10 times fewer stations, as 90% of charging will be at home or work (or somewhere where the car is already parked for hours at a time - no extra space required)

Or to put it another way, gasoline pumps now must be able to provide 100% of gasoline requirements, public fast chargers will only need to provide 10% of charging requirements.

The geographic distribution will change, as EV fast chargers will need to be predominantly along highways (while they'll still exist within cities they will be less common).

Initially to buy petrol while travelling you had to visit a pharmacy and they had tins of it out the back, you then had to pour it into your car with a funnel.

The issues listed aren't EV problems, they're new-thing problems.

I was absolutely baffled at how someone waited 3 hours for a charge at Kettleman City, where Tesla have two sites, one with 40 stalls and another nearby with 55 stalls. Just taking the smaller one into account, at a typical dwell time of 30 minutes, there is a car leaving every 45 seconds on average. Queues clear pretty quickly once you reach that scale.

It was either an omission, or just an assumption on my part that they were driving a Tesla - which I realised when I clicked through to the full story.

Turns out, there's nothing intrinsic about EVs that causes this problem, it's just whether the company building and operating the charging sites gives a shit about being successful or not.

To steal from a signature earlier in these comments:

Woke, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit"

Exactly the kind of problem which means we will never have one single world standard.

What do you mean? Tesla uses CCS2 in almost every location they operates in. GB/T in China. NACS in five countries. CCS2 in over forty countries (across four continents).

They've used CCS2 in every new market they've entered since 2017. Most of the time CCS2 has only become the standard because Tesla chose to use it.

That's a great idea. However, the standard with the most international support these days is CCS2 - used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia/New Zealand, and most of South America.

So all you need to do is convince the other half a dozen or so countries to change. That includes the United States, China and Japan - each of which not only uses a different connector to the rest of the world, but also to each other.