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Whatever happens, I hope charging infrastructure could be better standardized, particularly for "fast charging". There are basically three competing fast charging standards right now: SAE/CCS, used by most North American and European EVs, CHAdeMO used by Japanese EVs, and Tesla Supercharger. If your EV has fast charging capability, it will have support for one of these. Supercharger is the fastest of all of them, but it is only useable by Teslas. They've made a significant investment dotting the country with these things. SAE/CCS and CHAdeMO chargers are pretty rare, and even when you find a place with them, they often only have one, so if someone else is there, you've got to wait. Also, the interface is really clunky and confusing, and doesn't "just work" all the time. And sometimes they're simply out of service.

Hopefully Biden's infrastructure push will help the industry consolidate into a standard that works as well as Supercharger, but for all EVs. Going on a road trip in a non-Tesla EV requires a lot of planning and a little bit of luck, since you've got to make sure you can find Level 3 chargers along the way and hope they're actually operational. IMO one of the goals should be to put good L3 chargers pretty much everywhere a gas station is today. The fact that this isn't already happening suggests that this simply isn't profitable (not enough demand, expense of installation).