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On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 19:54:11 -0500, Ron C <r.capik at verizon.net> wrote:

>On 1/6/2018 7:38 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Tim Streater  <timstreater at greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>> It's not that bad, one or two cars at a time.  These days it's not unusual
>>>> at all for houses to have 200A service and putting a 100A 240V outlet in
>>>> the garage for a charger does not require a major retrofit.
>>>
>>> Garage ha ha ha. That'll work a treat on those streets of terraced
>>> houses, eh?
>>>
>>> A 50kWh battery is going to need 100A at 1kV to charge up in 30 mins.
>> 
>> You're not going to get that right now.  Maybe in a decade.  Right now
>> you're talking four hours to charge it up full.
>> 
>>> You going to give the punter a cable at 1kV to shove in their car?
>> 
>> It's dangerous, sure, but ever seen a gasoline fire?
>> --scott
>> 
>> 
>Thousands of people pump their own gas every day. Seldom
>a conflagration. Several hundred volts and a little water in the
>wrong place .. and zap!
>I'd tend to trust some average rube with gasoline before I'd trust
>them with high voltage stuff.

Not only that but one of the reasons people opt for an electric car
over a gasoline one is the fact that they don't want to have to stop
somewhere and add fuel... for a fee. If the charging stations remained
free, were ubiquitous and allowed you to go from empty to full in
about five minutes, I could see electric cars becoming the norm.
However, none of those seem to be the case anymore. While charging an
electric car is likely less expensive than fueling a gas one for sure,
I doubt that people will still be willing to pay the extra amount up
front if they knew that they had to pay to continue driving the same
way that they would with a gas car.