We're Charging Our Cars Wrong

If there’s one thing we could do now to hasten the transition to electric vehicles, it’s this: Build a robust public EV-charging infrastructure. While the media has focused on vehicle performance and range, consumers have always been clear that they want electric cars to do essentially everything their old vehicles do—including long overnight trips. To those who don’t yet own an EV, a robust infrastructure may seem unimportant. Studies, after all, show that in developed markets, as much as 90 percent of all charging takes place in the home. It turns out, however, that the remaining percentage of charging is critically important. Drivers of delivery trucks and taxis, residents of apartment buildings, students on their way to college, families on vacation, and countless others have learned that driving an EV can be a struggle where public charging is scarce or unreliable. A 2022 survey by Forbes, for example, indicated that 62 percent of EV owners were so anxious about EV range that the ... Read full article.