Cybertruck can have ladder rack after all...

Reisender wrote:


Yah. I don't think any country is ready for an overnight change. But they have a few decades to sort it out. Personally I'm not buying into the hopeless US situation. The US I know is is innovative, adaptable and quite often successful in the face of a challenge. Every country including the US will sort it out regardless of the can't do attitude we often see on forums like this and news story comments. You guys might be behind the eight ball now but you'll come out stronger as a result.

Five years ago our province was lagging behind in EV infrastructure as well. I think there were 7 DCFC and maybe 30 L2 charging facilities within 500 KM of our house. Now there are hundreds of DCFC's and I don't think anybody even tracks L2 chargers anymore. We are second behind Quebec and just in front of Washington State for infrastructure now. Huge change from a few years ago. We are on track for 10 percent of vehicle sales to be electric this year in this province, 4 years ahead of schedule. Demand is fueling infrastructure development. Quebec will be hard to catch. Great infrastructure there. It will be California that shines in the next couple years for development. My personal prediction is they will lead in the next three years. In one year 2 networks completed cross Canada DCFC charging infrastructure and a third will happen by 2021. (Tesla, Petro Canada this year and Shell next year). Interesting that two are gas companies.

Anyway. Enjoyed the discussion. Off to work on the honey dew list. Yeh. :)

I am not saying the we or any else is hopeless. Not saying we won't get there either. I am just saying that there is a lot more to it than just installing chargers, and it will take a lot longer than some here seem to think. There are many hurtles in just the infrastructure alone such as cost, manpower, supplies(copper ain't cheap), and so on.

The major downside of this is that it will make the cost increase for those who are already using this power in order to pay for all of this needed infrastructure. It will cost even more to get it done in the timeline people here are expecting. This will hurt the poor the most and will increase the cost to charge a vehicle exponentially in the future especially during peak times. What people do not understand is that the price for power is not static and changes depending on peak hours. Right now, the night time is not peak hours so it is really cheap at this time. However, if everyone charges at this time, then that will push it into peak power costs.


You also have the political aspect of it because I am sure the poor or middle class will not like their electric bills doubling or even tripling just so people can charge their EVs. Get enough of them mad to sway a vote and that could change things.