Make charging take 10 minutes and make them affordable and many people would switch over. Also start installing charging stations at gas stations so you have both options in the US.
Affordable I get. The 10m charging is one thing ICE drivers still get wrong. I have spent less time waiting to charge my car over the past year than you’ve spent pouring gas. And that’s counting times I was actively doing something else (but stopped mostly for charging).
I come home, I plug in, I go sleep. That’s 90% of my days, should I really optimize my car for the 1 roadtrip a month vs all the other days?
For some reason people have this mindset of “I must be in my car when I charge it”. I see it a lot when I go to DC fast chargers, which really only make sense on road trips. People sitting there in their car charging it up to 100%, which they do every time it needs a charge.
I’ve had conversations with people at charging stations where I explained that they should be charging at home and the reacted like it was the first time they even considered the possibility. If you only use fast chargers of course you are going ng to have a bad experience. That is a terrible way to operate an EV day to day, but it somehow became the default for a lot of people.
Make charging take 10 minutes and make them affordable and many people would switch over. Also start installing charging stations at gas stations so you have both options in the US.
Affordable I get. The 10m charging is one thing ICE drivers still get wrong. I have spent less time waiting to charge my car over the past year than you’ve spent pouring gas. And that’s counting times I was actively doing something else (but stopped mostly for charging).
I come home, I plug in, I go sleep. That’s 90% of my days, should I really optimize my car for the 1 roadtrip a month vs all the other days?
For some reason people have this mindset of “I must be in my car when I charge it”. I see it a lot when I go to DC fast chargers, which really only make sense on road trips. People sitting there in their car charging it up to 100%, which they do every time it needs a charge.
I’ve had conversations with people at charging stations where I explained that they should be charging at home and the reacted like it was the first time they even considered the possibility. If you only use fast chargers of course you are going ng to have a bad experience. That is a terrible way to operate an EV day to day, but it somehow became the default for a lot of people.
VW boss s likely talking to a wder audience than jst the US market.