"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) presented the following explanation :
Someone had to pay for petrol stations too.

They were a gradual development, over 120 years and ICE became more
widespread and greater distances were covered. For electric vehicles we
expect and need high capacity charging to be available now.

It would not be such a problem if the charging were instant, like
fillingup with diesel, but imagine a garage choked up with cars sat
there for many hours, recharging, whilst a long queue builds up outside
all waiting to recharge.

I'd say you need to look for a better solution. ;-)

Exactly: it needs a dramatic change in lifestyle to make sure that the car
is always fully charged when you set off from home in the morning or from
work in the evening (places where you can leave the car to charge for many
hours), in case you need to make a detour that lengthens your normal
journey. And it will put paid to journeys of more than the range of the car
because the refuelling time is so much longer than for a petrol/diesel car.
And there is always the worry that the place where you plan to charge the
car has no spaces left or has a power cut / equipment failure, leaving you
stranded.