Robert Roth
1 min readSep 20, 2021

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Charging stations is not the limiting factor to EV growth. It is access to overnight level 2 charging in apartments and condos. If a product is not easy to use, it won’t be used. I plug in my phone and EV at night, easy. Average miles per year in US is 13500. With 250 mile range, 97% of your days driving will only use at home charging. The first priority should be low cost loans to set up 400 amp service panels for EV. That will support 50 EV, likely match market growth for several years. Of course the initial set up won’t be justified by initial sales. So no easy access to at home charge, so no sale. Chicken and egg dilemma.

Not mentioned was using excess EV battery capacity for grip storage. An EV battery used as grid storage for low cost off peak electric power and selling back at high cost peak time of use rates could pay back $15,000 to EV owner over 10 years. Add saving in energy compared to gas power of $7000 and net cost of EV over 10 years is $0.0.

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Robert Roth
Robert Roth

Written by Robert Roth

Retired Intel Electrical Engineer, 70's US Navy Officer Nuclear Power Program, Graduate studies in Business UC Berkeley, BSEE U of Fla.

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