edatoakrun
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="adric22"]I would think it might actually be better to spend more federal money on charging stations. The vehicles would become a lot more desirable if there were more places to charge them. Also the range would become less important as would the loss of battery capacity over time.
I realize the government has already spent money on public charging but I'm not to thrilled on the way it has been distributed...
You are correct. There has, IMO, been a gross misallocation of BEV/PHEV subsidies.
The most extreme example of this is California, where I believe that well over $200,000,000 of Federal and State taxpayer subsidies have been expended to encourage the purchase of BEVs/PHEVs and also (often unnecessary) home and public L2 chargers, and not one well designed, correctly located, and dependable DC charge station, is now operational.
Only 1% of that $200,000,000 expenditure could have been used to install a few dozen DC stations installed at strategic highway locations. 10% of that the total subsidy, would have resulted in hundreds of DC stations, and a "developed nation" BEV infrastructure, such as now exists in Japan.