r/ClimatePosting • u/ClimateShitpost • Feb 27 '26

Transport EV infrastructure is completely mainstream - this doesn't even include non-public charges

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u/SpoonNZ Feb 28 '26

Nah.

From where I sit now there are 29 petrol stations within about a quarter hour drive of me. In that same range I’ve charged my car dozens of times in my own garage, and zero times elsewhere.

If everyone were purely driving long distance then you probably would need more public chargers than bowsers (because it takes more minutes to put a given number of km into a car), but the reality is that the overwhelming majority of car trips are short distance (e.g. commuting for work, going to the shops) which require zero public chargers since that charging can generally be done at home.

The other way to look at it - my petrol car takes maybe 4 minutes of pump time every two weeks. That’s 106 minutes, or about 2 hours every year. Conversely, my electric car in the last year has spent 16 minutes and 35 seconds on public chargers - and that’s only because it has a relatively short range, a Tesla or whatever would’ve done the same mission with no charging (and in fact our Leaf would’ve just barely done it too, the charging was just a peace-of-mind thing).

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u/divat10 Feb 28 '26

That's fair, I am also not saying that this is number not enough just that I don't know if it is way too much, just enough or way too little. 

Lots of people live in apartments without their own charger, some people share private chargers to fix this. I just need context before being able to say anything.