For each public charger, there are 20 EVs looking to plug in

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1. This is the big limiting factor with EVs. Combo the lack of available charging, with apartments/street parking without charging availability and you have a very tough hole to dig out of.

2. Haven’t read the article because… paywall.

   Lack of chargers is a major PITA for potential EV owners. And I can’t help asking why cities are so slow in addressing that.

   But I also recognise the many challenges… more and better public transport, more bike paths, more parking areas for bikes, less parking spaces for cars, and simultaneously more chargers for EVs.

3. For each public charger, there is a non EV parked in that spot.

4. *Oh no, guess we should divest oil, invest in public transit, and fight for less car-centric cities.* But that would be too logical…

5. I haven’t looked to “plug in” in 6 months, but ok. Also for each gas station there are 1,345 internal combustion vehicles.

6. These sort of “x number of ev’s have been sold” and there are only “y #’s of chargers out there” are missing the biggest point. **Most ev owners charge their cars at home.**

   The **ONLY** time I have ever or will ever use a public EV charger is when I travel long distances.

7. For all of the EV chargers that have been installed… how many of them don’t work because the charge cable was cut and sold on ebay for $30?

8. There’s about 257 cars per fuel pump so… Clearly no one is able to fuel their car.