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Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working
(www.businessinsider.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You mean to tell me "the poor" don't have access to electricity? How poor are we talking exactly? Because I'm thinking enough money to spend, say, $30k on a brand new car... which is still pretty well off.
I mean sure, if you live in a cheap inner city apartment, then you might not have a garage to park/charge in. But I bet a lot of people in that situation have access to public transit anyway - they're not really the target market for cars in general.
Most people charge their EV overnight. It'd be even better to charge during the day though, when electricity (can be) cheaper thanks to solar power.
Yeah you're going to have to share a source for that. Sounds hard to believe.
In the UK, public fast chargers are mostly around the 80p/kwh Mark. With a decently light foot and getting 4 miles per kwh, that's 20p a mile. With gas at £1.55 a litre, and a 60mpg (UK) hybrid, that's about 12p a mile.
Home charging an ev on an appropriate tariff costs about 7p/kwh, or about 1.75p per mile.
Public charging is fucking expensive.
Very few public chargers are 80p a kwh, its about half that: https://pod-point.com/guides/driver/cost-of-charging-electric-car
Its normally only the very fastest chargers that are around 80p, but then there are alternative options that are cheaper if you want ultra high speed and not get robbed blind, such as Tesla that is almost half what Instavolt charge.
You realize that parking garages do not allow you to plug your car into random sockets and most don't have sockets anywhere near the cars
Mist people who own a home or are Lucky enough to love some where that has chargers they can use you mean.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ev-charging-cost-versus-gas-car-truck-suv-2023-7
People who are barely making ends meet don’t usually buy new cars. They buy used. You can get something tolerable for a hell of a lot less than 30k.
Plus, if you’re poor, there’s a good chance you live in a shitty (maybe unsafe) neighborhood. You might not have a driveway, never mind a garage. If you leave your car to charge overnight, you have to worry about some asshole unplugging it, or even taking/vandalizing the extension cord.