Are Electric Vehicles Really Ready For Mass Adoption?
The answer is, of course, yes — but it’s the very people who should be encouraging them that are standing in the way.
A short missive complaining about what I see as profiteering in the EV charging sector through incompatible system and excessive charges (no pun intended) — something that may well stifle the growth of what is an essential industry for the future.
A Range of Problems
Range anxiety still remains one of the top factors in preventing many people making the move from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles over to electric vehicles (EV).
Even as battery capacity and energy efficiency increase in more modern EVs, the fear of running out of charge either during a journey or during a day’s work (for businesses) dominates recent the thinking of EV owners.
Naturally, one way to address this would be to drastically increase the scale and availability of public EV chargers but, as we’ve touched on in previous articles, the whole charging infrastructure is both fragmented and overly competitiive.
But, what is this?
My thinking is that as companies see the move to widespread more as a ‘business opportunity’ and, frankly, a cash grab opportunity than one that concerns the future of the…
