But farmers often have gas tanks on their property! Owned! /S
I think it's a question of where you can *purchase* gas, not where you can put it in your car. Obviously, you can put gas in your car (almost) anywhere. But you have to go to a gas station to buy it. Electricity you can buy at home. Depending on how you use your car, one may be more convenient than the other.
This kind of gets to the point of why car manufacturers are still making hybrids and the future might actually be plug in hybrids especially if algae gasoline or some other sort of biofuel gasoline can be scaled to mass production.
I can see that. But I think it's possible, maybe likely, that a large fraction of restaurants and stores will have electric chargers available in their parking lots in the medium-term (~20 years) future. That effect, combined with a gradual die-off in gas stations as fewer and fewer people use gas full-time, could make electric charging much more convenient (though still not faster) than gas fueling away from home. People will accept the occasional inconvenience of stopping for an hour when they travel long distances, and restaurants and businesses will salivate at the opportunity to lure in those stopping travelers. Gas/hybrid vehicles will still be respected nostalgia's sake and for the niche advantage of being able to travel 500+ miles as quickly as possible, in the same way that manual transmission cars are still a small but relevant minority today. That's my prediction anyway.
Yes, people get way too caught up on number of charging stations vs gas stations. Gas has to be transported somewhere to be loaded into your car. All homes have an electricity source to charge a car. You can also add solar panels to your roof and charge your car for free. With 300+ miles of range, most people with electric cars don't have to worry about anything besides plugging it for all but a few days, and those few days they have enough charging stations on their trip to make their trip, and they save quite a bit of money on fuel costs every time they drive.
I don't see hybrids lasting. charging times are getting faster over time, why add all of the complexity and maintenance issues of an engine to an otherwise electric car?
Yeah, the key thing about charging stations is that it's very easy for businesses to add them once it makes sense economically to do so. Already there are enough people using electric vehicles that most hotels offer charging. Once a larger fraction of people are driving electric vehicles, more and more businesses will do the math and find that it makes sense to add charging stations to attract electric vehicle drivers. That in turn incentivizes more people to buy electric vehicles because wherever they're headed, there's probably a charging station waiting for them. Positive feedback.
A small engine just used to generate electricity can be cheap and effect without adding much in weight or complexity. It expands the market for car makers and basically gives good selling points for consumers.
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I don't have one yet, but I am planning to get a model 3 before the end of the year.
Ignorance is fine. And it’s a learning opportunity for people if one is ready for it and chooses to learn from the person that agrees to do the teaching in an appropriate tone. I’m learning a ton in here right now. It’s great.
