This makes me sad, I've been a fan of Honda cars, having learnt to drive in a Civic. Japanese car companies have been slow to adopt EVs, now BYD and other chinese makers will eat their breakfast. Not to mention the short-sightedness of the US stance on EVs.
I think that we are hitting the wall of wanting EV, but lacking all the stuff around EVs:
1. Cheap electricity: The faster you charge, the more expensive it will get, to the point that charging on Ionity stations is more expensive than taking gas, but it is only way how to charge the EV within 30 minutes, which is still slower than gas. Chinese have stations where you can charge in less than 5 minutes. The price will be probably in multiples of a full gas tank.
2. Place to charge: If you are living in a city, then you have more use from EV, but space is at a premium, so it is unlikely that you have a dedicated parking space. You can drop the gas car wherever. You can't do that with EV because it would not be charged in the morning.
You may want to point out experiments with lamp post chargers, well it turns out that wires in lamp posts are supposed to transfer few kilowatts for lights, and there is no reserve of few megawatts you would need for slow charging of few dozen vehicles. So you would need to build chargers from scratch anyway.
3. Working infrastructure: It really sucks when you have a broken charger or charger which tell you to GFY because software stacks between charger and a car are not compatible.
4. User friendly infrastructure: This is where most progress has been done, but early app-only and no debit/credit cards chargers did a lot of damage to spread of EVs.
Furthermore charging in the middle of nowhere without any services is not a fun experience at all. On gas stations you have at least basic amenities. On a charger in the middle of a field you can maybe piss in a bush.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 10.3 ms ] thread1. Cheap electricity: The faster you charge, the more expensive it will get, to the point that charging on Ionity stations is more expensive than taking gas, but it is only way how to charge the EV within 30 minutes, which is still slower than gas. Chinese have stations where you can charge in less than 5 minutes. The price will be probably in multiples of a full gas tank.
2. Place to charge: If you are living in a city, then you have more use from EV, but space is at a premium, so it is unlikely that you have a dedicated parking space. You can drop the gas car wherever. You can't do that with EV because it would not be charged in the morning.
You may want to point out experiments with lamp post chargers, well it turns out that wires in lamp posts are supposed to transfer few kilowatts for lights, and there is no reserve of few megawatts you would need for slow charging of few dozen vehicles. So you would need to build chargers from scratch anyway.
3. Working infrastructure: It really sucks when you have a broken charger or charger which tell you to GFY because software stacks between charger and a car are not compatible.
4. User friendly infrastructure: This is where most progress has been done, but early app-only and no debit/credit cards chargers did a lot of damage to spread of EVs.
Furthermore charging in the middle of nowhere without any services is not a fun experience at all. On gas stations you have at least basic amenities. On a charger in the middle of a field you can maybe piss in a bush.