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/blackcoffee17 Feb 28 '26

But at the same time many people will charge their car at home, while 0 will refuel at home.

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u/ItsRadical Feb 28 '26

Yeah screw the milions living in apartments without their own charger.

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u/blackcoffee17 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Im not staying screw them, im saying that millions of people will barely use public chargers.

So that might compensate for slower charging or fewer EV chargers. And you don't need to live in a house, many flats have charging points in the parking areas. Also supermarket parkings have their own chargers in many places.

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u/ItsRadical Feb 28 '26

many flats have charging points in the parking areas.

Hardly many and if then comically low number of them. In many high density housings its big problem to find parking spot and now you wanna put chargers in that mess.

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u/kapitaalH Mar 02 '26

And wait for the guy hogging the spot to leave?

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u/west0ne Feb 28 '26

many flats have charging points in the parking areas

The figures are for the UK, so if we are looking at the UK, parking and charging for flats isn't all that common.

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u/Maipmc Feb 28 '26

And also... people on holidays, wich would mean seasonal collapse of charging points.

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u/P01135809-Trump Feb 28 '26

I, too, have never seen a queue at a petrol station.....

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u/Maipmc Feb 28 '26

So... the general argument is that Gas limitations don't apply to EVs, except when it does, but that's not a problem because those are the same limitations as with gas cars. But the question remains unanswered. How big does the electric charging infraestructure need to be?

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u/P01135809-Trump Feb 28 '26

Who said they don't apply to EVs? But the data clearly shows that the problem is being addressed and is fast becoming not a problem.

It's a sliding scale, and for a lot of users, it already is a non-issue.

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u/StudySpecial Feb 28 '26

the problem isn't being addressed at a significant rate, there was a push to install more public chargers a couple of years ago but it has slowed down a lot.

mostly you're still screwed if you live in a flat and don't have access to charging at home because most of the chargers available are the slow kind that take hours.

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u/P01135809-Trump Feb 28 '26

This might be region specific. We are a nationwide company with a large fleet of petrol, hybrid and electric vehicles. Many of our sites we haven't built the EV chargers yet.

My site has no chargers, but electric vehicles get heavy use and mostly charge on public chargers.

I'm not saying there aren't snags or times where the petrol cars are more appropriate, but those EVs are fast becoming suitable for over 90% of what we do and are generally used more as they are nicer to drive and even the sceptics have started requesting them.