Скачать или смотреть Driving into the Future: Is charging infrastructure the last roadblock for EV domination?

The biggest challenge facing EVs now may not be public acceptance or automaker buy-in, but an infrastructure capable of charging them all

Charging cars at home at night might be too much for California’s electric grid. Switzerland is pondering the possibility of a ban on EVs in emergencies. An SNC-Lavalin report says that, if we really want to be carbon-free by 2050, we’ll have to build the equivalent of 19 Bruce nuclear power plants. Throw in a scarcity of public chargers, an even smaller number of which are reliable, and even reports that some wayward chargers are destroying EV batteries and there’s precious little good news on the EV charging front. Were it not for the robustness of Tesla’s Supercharger network — by far Elon Musk’s greatest contribution to the electric revolution, and the best reason to buy a Model 3 – there would, in fact, be no good news at all.

Closer to home, what is becoming more plainly apparent is that the federal government has no master plan for rolling out a public EV charging infrastructure. Oh, it knows exactly how many electric cars will be on the road, and by when — its expectations on EV sales are very specific — but how many public charging points will be required and how much electricity will be required to service them is not nearly as meticulously mapped out. In fact, there doesn't appear to be any plan at all.

And that’s not a good thing. As Motor Mouth previously pointed out, an MIT study trying to gauge the future popularity of ZEVs imagined a scenario in which the sales of EVs is promoted more vigorously than the construction of a supporting infrastructure — exactly what is happening in Canada right now.