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Message: It goes slow.... until it goes FAST!

EVs continue to transmogrify the world of Privately Owned Vehicles in the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-01/electric-car-chargers-will-determine-america-s-green-future

Chargers are the final roadblock to America's Electric Car Future... says the author of this Bloomberg article.  He is quite critical of the present network of EV charging stations.   

My own opinion:  compare today's EV charging station networks ( Public and Proprietary.. read:  Tesla...) with that same network that existed only 5 years ago.  

One article that comments on the declining number of ICE gasoline filling stations in the U.S. has the following link:

  https://247wallst.com/autos/2020/02/16/how-many-gas-stations-are-in-u-s-how-many-will-there-be-in-10-years/

The history of the gas station development in the U.S. is not one of an overnight phenomenon... it took time to develop the gas station and pumps themselves into what we think of today and it took time to develop the network of gas stations around the country.  The same thing is happening now in regard to developing the EV charging stations ( different levels of speed for recharging EV batteries ) and for developing the EV charging networks, public and proprietary.

Below are a couple of links that demonstrate how this process took time for its own development viz a viz the ICE motor car:

https://petroleumservicecompany.com/blog/brief-history-self-serve-gas-stations/

https://aoghs.org/transportation/first-gas-pump-and-service-stations/

Someday we will see books written about this same transmogrification of the U.S. residential transportation network as that network transforms into an EV compatable network of recharging stations spread amongst not only our major transportation centers but also to include the more remote areas and small towns of the U.S. as well.... in other words, a network that will then mimic the distribution currently held by petroleum filling stations in the U.S. 

Things change and change is in the wind for both EVs and for ICE vehicles.  One will continue to increase as the other's numbers decline but never completely fade away. 

After all, we still have horses, don't we?

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