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I agree that it’s generally not enough, but it feels really well-aligned. It offers shelter, prevents the car from overheating, distributes resiliency where people need it, reduces the dependency on electricity transport infrastructure, answers the annoying question about the fossil-fuel-dependent grid, etc. But I agree: you don’t want just the loading section, but every parking lot to be entirely covered, resting area, play pen and access road too. Mainly because those are available areas that could use the shelter and, if anything, for more marketing: brand the panels to make the fast chargers in the corner of the parking lot that much more apparent. I actually would rather have a (slow) charger at every spot in that lot, to tell all car users: if you had an electric car, you could fill up while you shop. No need for the big fast one. More so: even then, you are still right that we need more. Have agri-voltaic near the fast chargers to show people how those work, or non-polluting industry that need large amount of electricity: Hydrogen generation maybe? It would reduce the dependency on infrastructure. It would be striking to have people take a break from the road near modern installations that demonstrate that we can have less polluting options. |