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Originally Posted by tturedraider
I understand your point. But, I’m wondering if you have ever been to the United States. I think it can be hard for Europeans to grasp the differences in size. The U.S. is about 40 times the physical size of the UK and the population is 5 times larger. I mention this because the infrastructure requirements and hurdles are phenomenal and short of the United States banning internal combustion engines and absolutely forcing no other option than EVs the demand for EVs would only ever come after the infrastructure is already in place or at the very least well into the construction phase. No one who would depend on the needed charging infrastructure is going to buy an EV on the promise that the infrastructure is coming.
I live in a relatively new condo building in Chicago with a 180 space parking garage. Even though my building is relatively new it does not have the necessary electrical infrastructure to accommodate any charging stations. It so happens that my building houses an electric company electrical vault that serves our entire neighborhood, so the cost for us to install the necessary infrastructure to be able to add charging stations in our garage is roughly half of what it would be if that electrical vault was not already in place. And the cost for us to do the infrastructure installation would be over $300,000. That’s just the basic electric infrastructure. The cost to install the chargers throughout our garage would probably be $3000 - $4000 per charger. That’s a total cost to the owners in my building approaching $1 million.
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I'm not sure why size of country is relevant when we are talking about issues in cities and on street parking issues - we have same issues this side of the pond.
and how many $millions worth of cars are parked in those bays - as the demand changes then people will start looking at ways of making things happen more efficiently thus bring down the cost. However that involves investment, something we seem to have reduced to almost zero.