Certainly something to think about if you want to be an early adopter. I think I've posted before that I'm looking at an EV as my next car purchase, but in our use case we'd still own an ICE vehicle for roadtrips and other uses.
That said this is kind of a twitter mountain out of a mole hill. People crying on social media because their world isn't meeting their expectations. It's not like there haven't been issues with the gasoline supply that resulted in long lines at the pumps during living memory. Without doing a ton of research, I'd suspect that in the early 1920's as gasoline vehicles were really getting going for the average American that there were issues with scarce filling stations, or the local pharmacy being out of 5 gal jugs of gas when you needed one. We are pretty spoiled by modern logistics. THAT said, it's certainly an issue for planners as EV's take more and more of the market share. What are we going to do about chargers? Where are we going to get the electricity, and are we going to impose charging standardization on the car makers? How much HV are we willing to let consumers play around with?
BobR said:
Diesel Gen Set?
About the mobile chargers. THe first ones were, in fact diesel. The new one is a 3Mw battery pack.
https://electrek.co/2019/11/29/tesla-mobile-supercharger-megapack/Terry said:
Why is this a California problem?
It was a Cali problem this year because that's where the density of Tesla's on long road trips exceeded the charger capabilities. More Tesla's on the road there, more folks driving the Tesla (instead of another car) to visit, more folks driving that Tesla farther than one charge on the trip, and if I want to be uncharitable, more folks of the personality type to not consider logistics in their trip, and then cry on the internet when life fails to meet their expectations. For whatever reason other regions didn't, this year, get enough of these things to have a charging problem.
