Humanity is too dumb to survive.

Then why the f*ck aren’t they fixing them? Could it be because they don’t make enough money to justify the marginal cost of fixing them? You keep saying money is money, but completely ignore that broken chargers are common as dirt. If they were worth something to the operator they would freaking fix them.

The gas pump owners put a priority on fixing broken pumps because that pump can represent thousands of dollars of lost revenue every day. The EV chargers might lose dollars (level 2 chargers) or a few hundred (DC fast chargers) per day when down. 

Sure, they might have a good gross margin on the re-selling of power. But even with fast chargers, you can only crank out so much power per day. And you’re only getting revenue when someone is charging, which might only be a few hours per day. (I’m talking less about Tesla Superchargers than I am about other…

Marques Brownlee did a video a few days ago on this very subject:

The whole point is that yes, all these conveniently located chargers exist, but if they don’t work when you need them to it makes for a bad experience.

This is what lots of people know, but nobody wants to say: electric car charging is not profitable. That’s why the charger companies, like EA, have little incentive to keep the chargers working. Unless a DC station is utilized 24/7, the incremental revenue from each station isn’t worth keeping it operating.

I guess it depends how badly you want/need one. You can order a Tesla for delivery in a few weeks here in Vancouver, where just about any other EV you’re looking at several months, or even two years for an Ioniq 5. The simple fact is that only Tesla is making EVs in real volume right now.

I heard a rep from a company working on sulphur batteries on David Roberts’ Volts podcast. The potential is huge, but there are some substantial challenges to overcome. Still, there’s real hope that we’ll start seeing them commercialized in five years or so. That will be the step-change in battery affordability that…

Will never happen. Like some other commenters have suggested, better to put some AI into the signaling itself. 

I don’t think you need a 3x more powerful charger to charge 3x faster. You just need to be able to charge at top speed for longer. Those 350kW chargers will, if you’re lucky, charge at 350kW for a small portion of the time, and you’ll find much lower charge rates through most of the charge cycle. If you could get…

You can bet every nerd with a geiger counter is out there looking for it now.

Let’s see what those margins look like now that they’ve reduced prices, but you can’t argue that they aren’t doing something right. I suspect they are leading the industry on battery cost, and certainly their de-contented interiors must save them a lot of money.

I chuckled, of course, but he’s not wrong. I think Cybertruck will definitely be niche, but I don’t think you can call Tesla a niche manufacturer any more. They are fairly solidly mainstream, even if Elon is trying very hard to alienate half the public with his politics.

Just horrific. I can’t imagine how the coworkers felt when it happened.

You realize that the charts and the story came from Reuters, right?

If by dude, you mean Reuters, then sure.

I suggest you need to work on your media literacy.

Are you talking about the crash on the Bay Bridge? Where did you hear new information? A google search doesn’t show anything newer than a week ago.

By “ICE tax” I meant your idea of a luxury tax on ICE vehicles. I said the advantage of your tax is that it isn’t onerous for poor people like a fuel tax would be. I didn’t write it very clearly, though.