camasleaf said:
I am sorry public L1 and L2 (slow charging) do not make sense to me in the long term. They are OK for now while the number of EVs is limited.
no matter what? hmm, lets examine that. unless you are taking a long trip, on average your car sits about 22 hours a day. suppose you have "errand day" and it only sits 20 hours a day (you would be in the ½ percentile range) that means 20 hours of charging.
now, if you ONLY charged at L1, you would be getting back about 5 miles or about 100 miles. add to that another 100 miles you already had and you now must average 50 mph during your drive time.
right now, we say that L1/L2 charging does not work because we have to plan for that. charging is simply too far, too inconvenient, too full, or simply not there.
put a charger EVERY where and we will not have this issue any more. you would literally be getting in your Leaf with most of your range left (i would probably be on a permanent 80% setting)
now i know you are thinking; too much money. how long is this going to take? etc.
well tell me something. how well do you think gas cars would work if there were no gas stations? or if there were only a dozen or so and the wait time was 20-30 minutes to get gas?
do you think that just because you would only have to do this once a week that it would be acceptable? no of course not and neither is the current EV charging situation. but that will change. it will change because we want it. its no longer lip service like the EV 1 fiasco. it will soon be nationwide.
it will be impossible to quash like the EV 1. GM had it easy. it only had to lobby a single state to get rid of the EV1. well we learned. GM or anyone else hasnt got a prayer in Hell of stopping EVs now.
only we can stop it. stop it by complaining. not thinking outside the box. not figuring out how EVs can work for us. sure, it will take an effort. talking, asking, lobbying, etc. but EVs aint going away and crying about what you cant do right now is only making it worse. it just takes attention away from viable solutions and L1/L2 is a viable solution. it will not work for everyone but it will work for a lot of them and what that does is take a few thousand voices and makes it several thousand voices who will ask for more and more and more and more needs will be met and so on and so on.