At least one company thinks there’s a more accommodating way to juice up an electric vehicle,
... [+]As it now stands, most electric-vehicle public charging stations tend to be spartan affairs, with one or two lonely units situated at the distant corners of retail parking lots or enclosed garages that make shopping while topping off the battery less convenient than necessary. Some stores, like the Amazon Fresh grocery that’s just about to open near where we live, put them right up front, but as we’ve seen elsewhere they’re often blocked by squatters in internal combustion vehicles .
Unfortunately, most public chargers are still 220-volt Level 2 units that can, at best, add a few miles to an EV’s battery pack within many parking lots’ two-hour limits. And that’s if a given charger is operational at all or can accept a payment method and/or connect to a given vehicle in the first place, but that’s reserved for another screed at a later date.
Though home charging is the key to conveniently and cost-effectively charge an electric vehicle, as EVs become more prevalent there will become a greater need for public Level 3 DC quick charging stations, whether to keep longer-range models running on extended road trips, or for any time the state-of-charge meter starts running uncomfortably low. Level 3 stations can bring some of the latest EVs up to an 80 percent charge in as little as 20-30 minutes.
Experts project there will be 35 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, and even with most only requiring an occasional hookup, the need for public chargers in the coming years will swell exponentially. To that end the Biden administration hopes to add a half million charging outlets to the nation’s current infrastructure, provided it can ever pass all or part of the now-dormant infrastructure bill.
One solution might be to give a greater number of stores, restaurants, and hotels, as well as exiting gas stations incentives to install on-site chargers for their customers, but as it stands they’re not only out of the financial reach of many businesses .
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