EVs are great if you own a house with a driveway and get to charge overnight. Outside of USA, how common is that really? Most people live in apartments in cities, where a parking spot is hard to find.
EVs are great if you own a house with a driveway and get to charge overnight. Outside of USA, how common is that really? Most people live in apartments in cities, where a parking spot is hard to find.
I think denser cities will eventually have battery-swapping stations, where you just get a new battery whenever you're running low. They then fast-charge your depleted battery and give it to a new customer later.
The big obstacles are compatibility and preventing people from abusing the system to get batteries in better condition for free, but I think countries with more central planning (like China) could force those issues.
At this stage parking buildings have maybe 4 chargers but 1 is out of order and the other 3 are in use. But that's a scaling issue.
Will be interesting when parking buildings start drawing megawatts overnight though.