We are of the mindset that you go somewhere to refuel your car and you spend your time there refueling your car. And why do we do that? Well it's not really practical for everyone to have their own gas station. But with an electric car anyone can have a "gas" station. You can have one at home, there can be one at the mall, at the restaurant, at your office.
In an electric car you just go somewhere and you happen to refuel while you're doing whatever your doing at your destination.
This doesn't necessarily work for every situation. I did a quick calculation and our normally 16 hour annual road trip to Asheville, NC would take somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 hours. And that's with a fairly generous 75 highway miles per charge.
But for 90%+ of our daily driving needs, charging at our destination would do the trick.
Of course, all this assumes that the charging infrastructure is there. The reality is that most of the infrastructure, in the form of the electrical grid, is there. It's simply installing the chargers themselves. Which is a lot easier and cheaper to do than build a gas station.
This doesn't necessarily work for every situation. I did a quick calculation and our normally 16 hour annual road trip to Asheville, NC would take somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 hours. And that's with a fairly generous 75 highway miles per charge.
But for 90%+ of our daily driving needs, charging at our destination would do the trick.
Of course, all this assumes that the charging infrastructure is there. The reality is that most of the infrastructure, in the form of the electrical grid, is there. It's simply installing the chargers themselves. Which is a lot easier and cheaper to do than build a gas station.
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