The Expert Podcast

So for those who do not have an electric vehicle, what are you looking at in terms of logistics for getting your trips fully charged? If you have an electric vehicle Well, ABC news did an excellent article about getting a chain of charging stations for certain trips And what they did was. they interviewed a person who is a, YouTube personality Steve hams. And he leased a Hyundai Kona for his 17 year old daughter. For three reasons because…it's something where she needed to have a commuter vehicle.

And she wanted they wanted it to be affordable and she wanted to save money towards college Not paying for gas. And now there's a dilemma. That many EV owners can relate to fighting charging stations far away from home. And so they're talking about how to get from Albany to Gettysburg college where she's going to be going to college. And how easily can they charge the car We want fast chargers that take 30 40 minutes.

See this is this is a key that a lot of people. Are overlooking. There are charging stations everywhere you look If you looked at any route from. You know one city to another maybe 300 miles away. You'll find charging stations Many of them though are level two.

And the level two means you might have to stay at that charging station according to the article. For hours. Right. And sometime. the maps of charging stations.

Won't tell you if it's a level two or level three. And because of the fact that his 17 year old daughter is on this long trip and she might have to be sitting in some parking lot for hours. According to the article makes me a little nervous. Can't imagine that…

is not surprising. And they want fast chargers. So…having a network of fast chargers is going to make a big difference in how fast people adopt these vehicles. Right now, many. Electric vehicle owners and electric vehicle is their second vehicle or one of many vehicles They have gasoline vehicles So if they're going to go on a long trip, They can drive their gas car where they don't have to worry about sitting for two or three hours to recharge.

that long trip because if you have to do that three times, that's a days worth of extra driving time. Waiting for chargers. So drop some comments below let us know what you think If you're an EV owner, are you experiencing this If you are not an owner of an electric vehicle? What are your thoughts on what it would take for a charging network availability to have you buy one? One of the things that the government's talking about is having the Tesla supercharger network be able to be used by non Tesla owners The problem is Tesla does not want his highly reliable.

And integrated charging network to be clogged with people. Who can't charge a car that fast. Right Which makes sense If you're a Tesla owner you wouldn't be really happy if you're. Parking spots were taken up by people sitting there for hours instead of 20 minutes, the government is working on a,

Project to install 500,000 a half a million new chargers across the U S. And boosting EV sales by 2030 Sounds like a long distance away. But it's really only about five model years right We're in right now in 23, within a few months we'll start seeing 2024 models out there. So we're within five model years of having boosted EV sales. Now keep in mind 500,000 chargers are not 500,000 locations.

Those are the actual number of plugs. So if you have one location that has five plugs, Right. That is counting five towards that 500,000 How does that relate to gas stations Well right now they're about 150,000 gas stations in the us. Well you might think well 500,000 is more well it's kind of a little bit of a, a tricky number because at a gas station how many gas pumps are there How many plus how many…nozzles are there at a gas station? Even a small gas station is going to have eight, right Two sides of four.

Most of them have 10 12 Some of them have 24. So having 500,000 new chargers even if you divide it by five. That's only a hundred thousand charging stations. That's less than the number of gas stations. We've got to keep in mind too, is that when you go to a gas station, you put in gas you're there for maybe three four minutes maybe five minutes and you're gone.

Charging stations take a lot longer. So having 500,000. By 2030. May seem like a lot first of all it's unlikely They're going to reach that number. But even if they do it's still a lot less than there are gas stations and they want to have electric vehicles be really all that's being sold by 2030.

Tell me how you think that math and those numbers add up, look, whether or not you think. Electric vehicles are a good idea. Is this. Migration. Being thought out.

Are the numbers being thought out. Is it going to work for the vast majority? of population And if it doesn't what's going to happen when you can't buy a gasoline car and it's all available is electric cars, but there's no place to charge em. Now, on the other side, you can charge your electric vehicle at home. You don't need to charge it.

Outside your home all the time. But if you live in an apartment or a condo or have to park on the street, might not be practical but a lot of people can charge up overnight and then just drive the next day on their electricity that they got from home. So there's a lot of moving parts to this. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out We'd love to hear your comments below of what you think about electric vehicles charging in the logistics of getting from a to B without having to sit for two or three hours in a parking lot.