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Well, EV infrastructure is the single biggest issue the United States has when it comes to EV's.

Simple fact is: we have more highways than anybody. It's a big, big, HUGE country.

To make matters worse, we still haven't standardized charging yet. If you're in a Tesla, and you see a Tesla charging station, then you know you're good. But if you see some other charging station, you basically have one chance in three of it being able to charge your car.

You don't pull into a gas station and find different sized hoses that may or may not allow you to put gas in your car. Here in the states, that's exactly how EV's are working right now.

And there's not nearly enough of them. Example: there's a Tesla charging station right down the road from me. It's over by the Mall of Georgia 5 miles from here. The next closest one is 30 miles away.

There are very few places in Georgia where you're more than 30 miles away from a gas station. But just about no matter where you are in Georgia, you're AT LEAST that far away from a charging station.

And when you consider the average commute to work in the metro Atlanta area is 36 miles one way...

Yeah. It's a pretty big problem.
 
Gomez Adams said:
Simple fact is: we have more highways than anybody. It's a big, big, HUGE country.
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Actually you have a huge interstate defense network that allows civilians to use it under the guise of taxpayer dollars (and later tolls!).

The northern states learned very quickly in the 1860's just how powerful a well coordinated transportation system is in war time. And the south learned just how bad it is when said possible defense network is owned by local barons looking for profit over country.

Washington (DC) simply added to that defense network as technology allowed over time and a lot of defense transportation moved from rails to vehicles. Roads can get to places quicker then rail. Your military workhorse is the diesel/gasoline engine and will be for a while.
So now you can be charged tolls and pay the government taxes for the same road and a corporation will do all the work (for a small fee to taxpayers) and upkeep.


So why are there so many gas stations? Corporations making profit from citizen use of the defense network. And the government allows business to partially 'own' a (toll) road and thereby also profit off it. Gas companies also make profit off non-defense roads. Win/win for them

Why are gas nozzles standardized? Corporations making agreements for profit reasons. Again win/win, I expect larger EV companies to soon standardize the plugs as a cost savings and consumer friendly move if they really want market penetration.
 
Zeedox said:
Why are gas nozzles standardized? Corporations making agreements for profit reasons. Again win/win, I expect larger EV companies to soon standardize the plugs as a cost savings and consumer friendly move if they really want market penetration.
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You're assuming that they actually want to make EV's.

They don't.

That's why they're intentionally making them too expensive to own and very difficult logistically to operate.
 
Governments may not want them but consumers do because they represent green and a big stiff-ya to gas companies.

And that will drive (no pun intended) EV sales and integration. Heck how many small companies are already jumping on the band wagon and making EV power station electrical adapters? So many that even Walmart is carrying them.
 
Well, the electric car in the states is a toy for the rich for now and the foreseeable future. They're simply ridiculously expensive. For the price of the cheapest Tesla money can buy you can buy any number of fully loaded cars that you don't have to worry about not being able to take on a vacation.

Until that changes, the EV will never take off in the States. And big oil and the big auto dealers will be perfectly happy with that.
 
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