Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Put More EV Chargers Along Highways
The plan calls for EV chargers being placed every 50 miles near highways and high-traffic corridors.
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Each station must be able to charge four vehicles, each at 150 kW, concurrently.If the government is doing it we’ll end up with useless chargers that have a 4kW / hour charging rate or some other major flaw. It’s more of a bailout for the legacy automakers that sat on their hands and didn’t invest in EV infrastructure like Tesla.
Better anyway than building $$$ Hydrogen refill stations!If the government is doing it we’ll end up with useless chargers that have a 4kW / hour charging rate
Plus, they are required to be working... I think the bill requires at least 1 of the 4 chargers to have a 97% uptime.Each station must be able to charge four vehicles, each at 150 kW, concurrently.
I guess it why they included an L2 plug !!!Plus, they are required to be working... I think the bill requires at least 1 of the 4 chargers to have a 97% uptime.
I don't see anymore any Hydrogen station
Better anyway than building $$$ Hydrogen refill stations!
It’s just a talking point for the politicians at taxpayer expense. Again, more than likely these will be junk that just rusts away. Amtrack probably sounded great too on paper or the train in California that makes The Big Dig look like a good deal.I'm a big math guy.... 48741 miles of interstate in the US. Dividing that by 50 gets me 975 stations, assuming absolutely zero coverage right now, and also assuming its one completely linear interstate. I'd be willing to bet that you really need maybe 70% of that 975 in 'added' stations, but whatever...
So now we have 7.5 BILLION going to cover 975 stations, for an actual cost of ~7.7 MILLION per station. If we cut the number of stations due to intersections in interstate highways, that's more like 10 million per station. Someone's relatives and friends are going to have to hide a LOT of money. Or maybe someone's dead shopping mall in the middle of nowhere will have to be bought and demolished for dozens of times its value so a new charger can be installed.
This is lunacy.
I‘ve never seen the
It’s just a talking point for the politicians at taxpayer expense. Again, more than likely these will be junk that just rusts away. Amtrack probably sounded great too on paper or the train in California that makes The Big Dig look like a good deal.
I've met quite a few people in the San Francisco area and all of them like the BART Bay Area Rapid Transport a lot.
I’m talking about the bullet train which is years behind schedule and isn’t operational. It was sold to tax payers as a $40 billion project and is now hundreds of billions and not complete.I've met quite a few people in the San Francisco area and all of them like the BART Bay Area Rapid Transport a lot.
When you have to deal with big city traffic, anything else seems better.I've met quite a few people in the San Francisco area and all of them like the BART Bay Area Rapid Transport a lot.
No.I realize now I didn't fully read the article, they are only planning to use 5B for the charging stations. Doubtless the other 2.5 billion will be used for 'education' of consumers on how great EVs are(sarcasm, to some degree).
That still leaves 7.5million or so per station.
It was also pointed out that this might require the building of charging stations on both sides of some interstates at certain points, or entirely new rest areas with charging stations. Sigh.
It’s just a talking point for the politicians at taxpayer expense. Again, more than likely these will be junk that just rusts away. Amtrack probably sounded great too on paper or the train in California that makes The Big Dig look like a good deal.
I've met quite a few people in the San Francisco area and all of them like the BART Bay Area Rapid Transport a lot.
I'm a big math guy.... 48741 miles of interstate in the US. Dividing that by 50 gets me 975 stations, assuming absolutely zero coverage right now, and also assuming its one completely linear interstate. I'd be willing to bet that you really need maybe 70% of that 975 in 'added' stations, but whatever...
So now we have 7.5 BILLION going to cover 975 stations, for an actual cost of ~7.7 MILLION per station. If we cut the number of stations due to intersections in interstate highways, that's more like 10 million per station. Someone's relatives and friends are going to have to hide a LOT of money. Or maybe someone's dead shopping mall in the middle of nowhere will have to be bought and demolished for dozens of times its value so a new charger can be installed.
This is lunacy.
It's only "flawed" when the subsidies in question support the side you want to "win" which is an asinine, selfish and myopic way to go through life. It's a shame that people don't seem to give a hobo's crap about the country any longer. Just whatever their own personal interests are. But you keep suggesting I'm anti-govt and I should commit suicide when you know nothing about me. Real good look.