Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem" video.

  1. This very same problem is just a million times worse in the 3rd world... I'd get an electric car whenever it got cheap enough for me to afford, sure. In fact, I'll probably do it one way or another some years from now with a critical mass of fast chargers in my city... at least perhaps a hybrid. But basically, there is no electric infrastructure built for long trips. And the trips I make every year to visit family... it's just even worse. It'll likely take a strong enough shift in several other countries to the point of leaving no choice for big car manufacturers to shift production entirely for EVs... then, if there are still car manufacturers here (some are already closing down), they'll need to shift production lines, making gas cars more expensive, and forcing adoption of EV infrastructure across the board. One of the trips I make to visit family is cross state tip to tip, which means a whole ton of hours going through small towns and small gas stations. In several of those gas stations... you don't even get cellphone signal, an electric charging station in one of those would be like the monolith in the beginning of 2001. xD But perhaps more important than the problem of availability, there's the problem of reliability. Here, if those chargers are not cordoned off, heavily protected, and heavily maintained - they'll just be broken all the time like every single open to public facility. This is a country where vandals destroy everything that is in public space all the time, and criminals are resorting to stealing copper cables in buildings that are not occupied all the time. Yep, I've been hearing more and more about businesses, churches, gathering places in general that are only occupied a few times in a weel, getting their entire copper cable installation getting pulled off to be sold as scrap. If the electric charging infrastructure is build anywhere with easy access, it's gonna be immediately destroyed. Government is never gonna fund this, and it's preferable that it never does, because it cannot maintain any facility open to the public in great shape. Bureaucracy tramples over any type of project that demands a high degree of maintenance for availability. It needs to get to a point current gas stations offers the service instead. And then, another pretty big problem comes from infrastructure itself - particularly for the long stretches of space where you only see small towns, the electric grid has always been spotty at best. Between having been poorly build in the first place, and not getting any maintenance for decades, it's not exactly in the best shape to put something like DC chargers. So we're talking about a revamp not only in charging solutions for cars, but potentially also the entire local grid... imagine that. So, I guess if developed nations are a few years away from it... we're probably a few decades away or more. In that sense, hydrogen fuel would make for an easier transition.... I'm kinda hoping development of it still goes forward, but not sure if it will.
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