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by MEMORYC_RRUPTED 937 days ago
And to give an anecdotal counterpoint: I live in (relatively speaking because small country) the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands, I have 8+ charging stations (each with at least 2 chargers) in my small town and a fast charging point with 20+ chargers within a five minute highway drive.

Not that there aren't any problems, and there are definitely "dead zones" so to speak, but the situation you're describing isn't valid everywhere.
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FirmwareBurner 937 days ago
Yeah I'm sure small wealthy green and well developed countries like Netherlands, Switzerland or Denmark have built good EV infrastructure, but in most Europe it's not like that at all.

I live in Austria now and charging infrastructure is still very sparse in the city where people keep their cars parked and there's no signs of new chargers being built so I'm also skeptical on meeting the deadline.

Also considerig that most people have old beaters, those people won't be able to magically afford more expensive EVs with worse range.

So I think your parent is right and your situation in Benelux and the Nordics is the exception not the norm. If the infrastructure doesn't massively improve across the block and the price of EVs doesn't tank along with a range increase, there will be uproar in the less fortunate EU countries who depends on ICEs and the ICE deadline will have to be postponed again.

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toyg 937 days ago
I'd be ready to bet good money that the situation I describe is much more common, across the whole continent, than the one you describe. Benelux and Nordics will always be ahead in this kind of thing, but you're also very much in the minority.
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alexanderchr 937 days ago
To be fair we didn’t have most of the existing infrastructure ten or even five years ago. Once the time is right it expands a lot faster than you expect it to.
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FirmwareBurner 936 days ago
>Once the time is right it expands a lot faster than you expect it to.

You clearly don't know my city leadership/country. Stuff only starts to move after the shit has already hit the fan and everyone ahs their pitchforks out.

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