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by JumpCrisscross 635 days ago
> money is in the store / lounge

Is this demonstrated?

Visiting the gas station is an across-the-income-strata chore with recurring economics. Wealthy EV owners, on the other hand, charge at home--"the economic burden of installing home chargers" being unfeasiable "for many living in multi-family housing or renting" [1]. It's unclear whether electric trucks will charge en route, and if so, whether they'll have many people on board for long hauls. So you’re stuck, as a base case, with road trippers. An intermittent, lower-volume and presumably pro-cyclical market.

Put simply, the economics of gas stations don't map cleanly to EV charging.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13640...

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> Wealthy EV owners

This is largely a function of needed to charge in a garage.

A bit of a nitpick perhaps, but I'd say a personal parking area.

I don't charge in my garage, I charge in my driveway. My garage is stupidly small. My previous car, a small Subaru BRZ, barely fit in my garage. It doesn't help that there's a pillar right in the middle of it, preventing anyone from opening the passenger door of any car parked.

If I parked my Model 3 in my garage, I'd have about two feet between the front bumper and the back wall of the garage.

I agree "Garage" isn't the right phrase but what really matters is owning something to (or having autonomy to) attach a charger near where you park.

I guess "Garage" is just shorthand for owning a single family home.