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So some bigger charging stations are needed in some inter-city locations. Not that hard. That's the Madonna Inn, by the way, a famous sex hotel since the 1950s. Maybe they could offer a deal where you get valet charging with a short stay.

This is a serious charging station, in Shenzhen.[1] 637 chargers.

[1] https://thedriven.io/2019/05/24/worlds-largest-charging-stat...

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> That's the Madonna Inn, by the way, a famous sex hotel since the 1950s

Not sure what you were trying to say here, but the implication is that this is a dingy, sleazebag motel, only trafficked by hookers and pimps.

For the record, that's absolutely untrue.

It's a pretty fun hotel with theme rooms and a really cool cave bathroom.

Yikes, I hope that Shenzhen is not the future. That's a LOT of real estate to dedicate to charging cars.

High speed rail between the major cities, with decent transport links out to the smaller areas makes so much more sense (if done correctly, which CA and the US in general has proven incapable of doing).

That's a LOT of real estate to dedicate to charging cars.

Not really. It's a 700-space parking lot. A Walmart Supercenter, of which the US has over 2000, has more than that.

Not that hard. Unless there is no physical space to add more capacity.

But it costs money. And Tesla has been greatly reducing their investment in supercharger infrastructure even as they sell more cars per year.

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