CanuckCowboy posted... As I understand it that bill has about a 1% chance to actually pass though, no?
Either way I feel like most gas stations aren't gonna spend the money to change until much later. Even if half of all new sales are electric the vast majority of cards on the road will remain gas powered for quite some time. Unless they're getting handouts I dont see gas stations in rural areas changing over / adding a lot of charging stations without there being significant financial incentive for them.
Like sure in big cities and on the coasts it'll likely happen... but for the most part I think much of America would be lacking charging stations pretty heavily.
Also I dont really know wtf I'm talking about so I could he wrong.
I'm not sure how it would really work unless charging became so much quicker. Think about you're typical gas station off a highway. Some are larger than others, but many don't have the room to accommodate several dozens of parked cars because each car has to wait an hour plus to charge. If they can't speed up the charging, massive charging stations will have to be created. I dont really see that working out
Smaller gas stations wouldn't even have the space to just have a bunch of cars parked for hours on end. They need to figure out the charging issue before they start rolling this out.
Or, I guess with a lot of other things, people's freedoms will just be limited. Want to drive to the next state? Sorry, because of the environment, it's going to take you double the time.
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