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by dotancohen
1379 days ago
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> In Spain, 70% of the vehicles stays on the street overnight[1], that means a charger every roughly 10 meters. Imagine the amount of copper necessary to cover that.
Imagine how much copper would be needed to supply electricity to every house!If Spain happens to already have a system that supplies electricity to every house in place, then the amount of copper needed to string some up to the road would cost less that the price delta between petrol and electricity in most places after a single month of electric vehicle use. I know because I've strung copper from my home to my parking space, three phase, and I did it for financial reasons. I love the reasons that people invent to try to oppose electric vehicles. Think of the copper! |
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In Spain you need a permit for almost anything and one of the reasons we don't have more chargers is just because of bureaucracy.
Right now, if I had a car and it was electric, the only option I would have to charge it is running an extension cord from my balcony to the car (Supposing I parked right in front of my apartment).
This is a real challenge and I wish the government would focus on the infra needed to: Assemble batteries in the country, create more and more charging points (As I said before, 3 streets had a cost of 200k€, and they are not even covered completely) and remove taxes from electric vehicles. I think that's what works but here they chose to make life difficult for everyone with a gasoline-powered vehicle.
At least the government is investing in public transport