I don't mean travelling over 100 miles without stopping is extreme, just that for most people it's not really an issue as they can have a coffee/lunch/ explore or whatever. will actually be lower than the number of petrol cars needing to fill up since many cars will charge overnight** and some will never/rarely need to use rapid chargers. This charger, which is produced in China and licensed to Project EV in the UK, is also known as the ATESS or Growatt, which can make things confusing.

At one point we had a charger per every 4 or 5 EVs. Now it’s 1 per 11. And going in the wrong direction. There has been a lot of coverage even within the EV favourable media outlets. It’s becoming a problem for some people already. And that’s still a tiny tiny minority of EV cars out there. Imagine when we are talking 20M on the roads….I think early adopters can only see how it is now. Rather than imagining 5 cars all competing for one charging point. After 2 hours sat in a car then a short walk around a lake or beach or whatever will do everyone good. We usually do that when traveling with the kids anyway.If you have a solar array and are willing to pay a bit more, this model can use surplus solar power to power your vehicle. Pod Point has been manufacturing chargers for more than a decade, which means it was a pioneer in the burgeoning EV industry. However, its solar abilities aren’t well-known, and we’d recommend choosing a charger with a record of using solar energy to a higher level, like the Zappi or EO Mini Pro 2. But most people can’t be imaginative. If your journey is on a bank holiday down the M6 and M5 for example with your family and all and sundry are also on the road you aren’t going to get people taking detours. They need to get from Cumbria to Cornwall or wherever and they aren’t driving miles out of their way with their young kids in tow. So you need an infrastructure to support the weight of motorway traffic when the majority of it is EVs that allows people either far greater range than exists or simply has charging points in sufficient numbers to support the on road traffic in these sorts of peak scenarios. Service stations each need hundreds and hundreds of working charging points. I don’t think that’s contentious or even necessarily the full extent.

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Quote "I pay 5p / 7.5p etc per unit for my overnight charge" - How long do you think cheap rate will exist for overnight? It is cheap now because typically demand overnight is about 10-20GW less than daytime but as we get more EV's charging overnight, that balance will swing the other way and we will end up using more at night than daytime so the cost will be the same as the day rate - currently heading upwards above 30p a unit. That's about 4-6 times that cheap rate you enjoy now - may even end up more expensive at night because there is no solar.

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Obviously that is true but the infrastructure wasn't there for petrol to replace horses. Why didn't that fail? All you are doing is repeating that infrastructure needs to keep improving, and needs to improve more than it is - I don't see anyone arguing with that. But I don't see how you arrived at hundreds of chargers being needed at service stations which was your original claim. Any chance you might shed some light on how you arrived at this number? Its Solo 3 has some useful features, like auto power balancing, which alters your charging speed to ensure your home isn’t overloaded. Ok, so we'll all charge overnight from midnight to 5am as per the EV tariffs - so lets say 75% of the 229 GWh per day is pushed into those 5 hours, that would increase demand by 35GW overnight - taking us well above the typical daytime usage (night is 20+ summer / 30+ winter) - so in winter the overnight charging would hit 65GW which exceeds the current highest daytime peak!