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Old 10-17-2019, 09:33 PM   #1676
accord1999
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist View Post
Supply and demand will take care of that. Gas stations require a lot of infrastructure and regular delivery of gas. Chargers require only a little bit of work
Not for high-voltage, high amperage chargers.

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They can be but almost everywhere
Only if you want power output not much better than a block heater. If you want multiple chargers capable of 100+ kW, then it's not quite so easy.

And here's a large thread discussing issues found with Tesla's Superchargers, related to broken chargers and chargers only capable of low output:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors...superchargers/

And every time you do fast-charge a li-ion battery, you're probably doing damage to it that adds up. Here's a graph of one owners experience with a 2014 Model S after 3.7 years and 133K miles:




https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/thre...dation.100913/

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