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Breaking The DCFC Standoff Is Hard
When it comes to EVs and EV charging, there’s a big chicken-and-egg problem, or perhaps better put, a Catch 22. EV chargers are expensive, especially for fast chargers (Level 3). A decent charging station can easily cost a million dollars, and then cost thousands per month to keep running. So, when a business is deciding whether to spend big bucks on putting a station in, the obvious first question is whether they’ll get that money back, and hopefully more.
But, when we don’t have fast charging available in all of the places we want to take an EV, it’s hard to justify buying the EV to begin with. Most interstate highways are covered well in the United States now, but there are still many other highways that are dead zones, even for Tesla vehicles….
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