agip wrote:
Marietta Tar Heel wrote:
As been stated ad nauseum on this thread, charging issues are the primary barriers to widespread EV adoption. It is a significant hurdle that has not been overcome.
What was interesting from the article was that most EV users did not use public chargers. A lot of money is being allocated to increasing the public charging infrastructure and it may not have much impact. The findings from this study is that it is the ability to charge at residences that needs to be addressed. Again, this has been stated multiple times on this thread as well.
yes it does, and Fats has inappropriately continued to call people without garages 'idiots' for not buying EVs.
He has also referred to posters using slurs as well, so I wouldn't put much stock into anything he says. And, apparently, even some of those with garages can only get 36 miles of charge overnight.
Bottom line is that there are a large number of people for whom EVs will not work. It's a simple fact that he continues to be ignorant of or he is just being obtuse. Either way, it doesn't change the results of this study or any other ones that have a similar conclusion.
20% of a group of early adopters (who tend to be most blindly attracted to the concept, no matter the shortcomings) from California (who have been given lots of incentives to purchase EVs) is quite significant. You would have to assume that the same data from less EV-friendly areas of the country has a much higher discontinuance rate. This type of rate is not sustainable for widespread adoption.
There is no doubt that in order to grow at the rate needed for widespread adoption, there needs to be a heavy finger on the scale from governments. A very heavy finger, indeed.
You can also download the dataset which is intriguing.