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Headline 100 years ago: "How many gas stations does the US need to replace Hay and farriers?"

Obviously for the first few years it was difficult to drive an automobile very far.. and every year it got better and better.



The difference is, you can create a gas station with a barrel and a pump. No need for infrastructure.


Also every single house in the civilised world has an electric outlet, the infrastructure is already built.


Sure, but the curbs three blocks away do not, and around here there's been no progress towards building it.


Curbside parking is shit for everyone. I would be really hesitant to leave any car I'm not willing to lose on the curb.


You can create a charging station with solar panels and a battery.

Gas stations don't fill up themselves out of thin air — a massive infrastructure has been built (and wars fought for) for extraction, refining, and supplying the fuel.


I’m pretty sure you would need a huge, extremely expensive battery and it could only charge one or two cars a day, and take multiple days to recharge.


You're saying as if it was hypothetical. This is already being done.

UK's gridserve has solar farms producing 62GWh/year, that's over 2000 full recharges per day.

Their "Electric Forecourts" have 6MWh of battery storage (~100 cars).

https://www.gridserve.com/electric-vehicle-charging/electric...

Battery storage is common in charging stations, because it allows peak charging speeds higher than the grid connection, plus use of renewable and off-peak electricity.


You can (and people do) create a charging station with just a battery. Using the same metric as the gas station, which will indeed need more than just a barrel to make it work.




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