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Originally Posted by Sliver
The fact that people take a road trip once a year doesn't mean electric cars won't work. Traditional gas cars and the infrastructure for gas cars isn't going to disappear overnight, so people can always drive those. If there are hours waits for charging in some places, people will open up more charging stations. Simple supply and demand. Will we need to run more electricity? Maybe. Or maybe people will store energy in batteries they've charged overnight during non-peak hours and allow people to charge their batteries off those during peak hours. Whatever happens, these will be easy problems to sort out.
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At who's cost? Electricity is expensive to run, cabling, chargers, space. So right now Gas gets sold at a price that barely makes a profit with the infrastructure in place. So, what the price you'd pay to have someone "just open up another place" to charge your car, when he/she outlays tens if not hundreds of thousands for land and infrastructure for a charging lot....Its cute the current majority of the chargers are free, thats the benefit to being a miniscule percentile of the moving population. That's also unsustainable, so sure the gas stations in the residential areas will likely be less busy/close, but someones gotta pay for those off the highway mass charger spots.