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Comment #5247

2024-07-01T18:20:07Z

I read that over 40% of electric vehicle owners in America want to switch back to gas next time they buy a car, citing the same reasons that frustrated me. It was less for the rest of the world, but still over 20%; well over, I think, but maddeningly, I can't find the article again. Stephan is right that the middle of the path is bound to be bumpy. Few people are going to want the cars until the infrastructure is there, and it's hard to look ahead enough to invest in the infrastructure if people don't want the cars. I'm not convinced it's a good idea for the federal government to subsidize an idea whose time obviously has not come yet, but maybe they're hoping that if they give it a push it will start rolling. (That's how my father used to start cars sometimes when I was young.)

Comment #5246

2024-07-01T17:11:51Z

Stephan's article mentions that the very little funding for chargers has been spent yet. And that is because the federal government makes it so hard for that money to be spent, with short term deadlines to get the required applications in order, even when we have state agencies looking out for them and trying to prepare our town to have the right paperwork, we end up applying for grants that aren't appropriate, being late to the deadlines because they require a full-time grant writer on staff.

Our town is in one of the target areas for chargers and we still can't get anything done.

Comment #5245

2024-06-30T17:20:29Z

Here’s an article that’s pro-EV and still reaches similar conclusions: https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Jan31-6.html. (Sorry, I don’t trust my phone to type correct HTML.) It’s definitely hard to get such a huge change right, and the period we’re in where the system goes from where a few aficionados have their shiny toys to where all is established and running smoothly is obviously going to be bumpy.