No more GM diesels?!
GM goes 100% electric And Ford has made similar announcements. Is this the end of pickups? I haven't seen a glimmer of a electric p/u with 500 mile range and 3500 pound carry capacity have you?
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
You are off by a factor of ten. Costs per charging station (with multiple bays) are currently between $100,000.00 and $270,000.00.
There are approximately 68,000 spots to charge at in USA. But most charging may happen at home, or at work. A plain jane 15 amp circuit provides about 35 miles of range over ten hours.
Cars, on average, are used for about 294 hours a year. Yup, less than an hour a day. That leaves plenty of time for low level charging.
I agree that hydrogen fueling is at the moment difficult. But remember the first trans American road trip purchased gas from small town general stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson_Jackson in 1903.agesilaus wrote:
So how does GM expect to add 100,000 electric charging stations at say $2,000,000 each
From Tesla's own financials:
"Anyway, I decide to check Tesla's own statements on capital spending. Apparently, 5% of capex (or $75 million for 2015) will be devoted to Superchargers. And the network will expand 50% from 333 stations at the beginning of the year. I bring out the calculator and... so... that's actually $450,000 per site."
And note those are 2015 prices not 2020
And I doubt that number includes the price of a piece of prime real estate on busy roads. You couldn't buy a phone booth for that price in San Francisco or Seattle. I don't trust a word out of Musk's mouth.
Still that's less than my assumption.
