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When will install all the goverments electrical plugs in all gas stations, so that we can charge our electrical cars?

And this would be more cleaner if all electricity would be made out of wind and sun.

asked 2 years ago

Gabriel

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Gabriel,

If it were just that easy!  Unfortunately, recharging electric cars is much more complicated than it sounds. 

The first issue is that even the most advanced electric cars with the highest-output charging stations need more time to "fill up" than a traditional fuel stop.  Due to this reason distributing electricity via a fuel station is likely not in the cards.

What is more likely is to outfit parking lots and garages in city centers, office buildings, bus park-and-rides, schools/universities with charging stations, since the average parking time could actually provide significant recharging opportunities.  Still, this alone leaves plenty of challenges.

First -- there is no standard for a "plug" for electric cars.  The best case scenario is to have a line that plugs into any car that parks in the space (like a gas pump), but this is not possible at this time.  Alternatively, the reverse could be made, where a simple outlet is made available, but that would mean owners would have to cart around an "extension cord" for a lack of the real term.  Since some cars can recharge on household current (very slowly, though),while others use 220, stations would need both outlets.

Second -- sadly, our "grid" cannot support even a year's-worth of automotive sales in America all running on electricity, much less the snowball if it becomes the norm.  Areas of California already face brownouts in the summer...just imagine a few hundred thousand cars all recharging during the peak of a business day.

So we'd need to build plenty of more power plants and the transmission lines to address the larger usage.  As we all know, solar and wind power isn't efficient enough to accomplish this (not to mention -- these sources are really expensive!)  We would need to use coal or nuclear...or at least more hydro-electric, but with better technology and infrastructure to store during off-peak and transmit during peak times.

No matter how one looks at it -- this comes at a significant cost.  If we don't build the grid to scale to a movement to electric vehicles, electricity becomes too expensive -- and instead of east-coasters complaining about the cost of heating oil, everyone complains that it's too expensive to use a kwh of electricity.  If we do build power plants, they will cost billions and have to be in someone's backyard.

Which is why I have explained to readers over the years that moving to electric vehicles will not be an economically-based decision.  It might not even be a great environmental solution, since as of right now the production of the Prius creates more greenhouses gasses than the worst new gas-powered vehicle.

Instead, we have to look at it as a foreign policy/political defense issue.  If we do not have to depend on sources ranging from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to Canada for our oil, then we have much more bargaining strength when it comes to international negotiations.

added 2 years ago

sbarer

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I have heard that some truck stops have started installing few of them. I can not remember were though.

added 9 months ago

jpope

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Yes it will be cleaner,  If I were you, I would equip my car with a car Mp4 player with FM transmitter

added 2 weeks ago

autolandy

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