ChargePoint is one of several companies that have begun building out fast charging networks.
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Electric cars are getting cheaper and they can go farther on a single charge. Still, most car shoppers have one big concern: How will I keep an electric car charged while I’m on a long road trip?
Gas stations are everywhere. A typical highway exit might have several of them, each with banks of pumps at the ready. And the process is fast: Filling the tank takes just a few minutes. There’s rarely any need to plan fueling stops ahead of time. When the tank is running low, it’s just a matter of pulling off at the next exit, filling the tank, and getting back on the highway. Snacks, drinks and restrooms are usually available there, too.
But there are far fewer electric car fast chargers along the highway. Also, despite advances in charger and battery technologies, it still takes much longer — typically about 30 minutes […]
I love the concept of using electric vehicles. That said, I also have never had the money to buy a new car and I plan to keep the cars I have for the rest of my life, maintaining them in my yard as I always have. I have never had to pay a mechanic to work on my cars. I don’t care what happens to my cars, I will fix them. I drive two old cars right now: one a 1990 Toyota and the second a 1992 Chevy APV for heavy jobs (I use it as a truck more or less). I will not give up these cars and will do anything to keep them. The Toyota was the car my mother bought the month after my father died in 1990, thus represents a memory of my parents; plus it gets good gas mileage (40 MPG). The APV is useful for many tasks because it has a trailer hitch and I can tow trailers to the compost facility with it which I need to do often because of the amount of cheap Chinese junk I have to throw out more and more frequently lately since everything is made under the “planned to be obsolete” method which now consumes our budgets, instead of the now old fashioned method of “planning to be better and longer lasting” which was the norm in the distant past. I am just not “of” this age, I guess and should have been born and lived in the 1800’s instead of now.