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Originally Posted by AMB
Fast charging is going to be a major obstacle because of the infrastructure required. Just the cabling alone will be a problem. Imagine how huge the cabling would have to be to deliver the power required by a fuel station with say 20 outlets. Then you often have mutiple stations in an area, so you will need massive cables supplying that area. Similar problem will occur with charging at home, your small street might have 50-100 homes all trying to fast charge at the same time.
I was reading an interesting article the other day, about how much power is used by all ICE used for transport in the world. They calculated that to replace them all with electric, we will have to start building power stations at the rate of one a week to meet requirements. How accurate that is I dont know, but even if they are wrong by an order of magnitude, it makes the point that we (average Joe) dont really understand the problem.
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And that same small street has roughly 2 cars per house (mum/dad) then when the kiddies get there license, thats another car per kid. Most small streets in suburbia are lined with cars, going to be interesting with all the extension leads running across footpaths etc... what happens if you cant park your car outside your place and have to park a few doors down.