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> simply charge at home/work/the store/etc

This requires having expensive, redundant charging infrastructure at all these places. It works today because far less than 1% of cars on the road in most of the developed world are electric. If 25% were electric, that free charging at the store and work is going away, there won't be enough bays to charge all the cars.

Whenever I hear 'X company is going all electric by Y date' I assume it's either an outright marketing lie, or that company will soon thereafter be out of business.



It's really not much of a leap to put a charger in many more spots. It was a bigger effort for many first rural grid electrifications for instance.




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