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Originally Posted by ripTDR
This is where I take issue with the EV mandates. Unless you can charge at home with the going rates, it doesn't really make sense using third party charging because of the expense and inevitable surge pricing. People in older condos need to be able to charge at base rates and they need to do it with their own stall. Have 4 level 2 chargers with a 50 unit complex that has 6 EV's? you will get problems. Charging at home is incredibly cheap and convenient and if we want to go to electrification we have to keep it this way.
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I think we need to be a little more forward looking here.
Firstly, there is no mandate. No one will be forced to buy anything. After 2035 (that's TEN years away)you cannot sell a
combustion only vehicle. That's it. You can buy a used combustion or a new plug in hybrid vehicle. There's no EV mandate.
Secondly, Norway and others have mostly solved the cost problem as the cost issue is an economic one that will look vastly different in the future. Currently, charging stations are one off installations funded partially by grants and incentives, with mostly price insensitive customers. With only 1-2% of the fleet being electric, utilization is far too low to have cheaper stations, and the people who currently own EVs largely don't live in dense urban locations and they largely aren't price sensitive. If you're waiting for prices to come down before growing adoption then it'll never happen.