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1. sippingabonedry · 1790550000 · focus · HN ↗

   Not in rural Europe it isn't.

   There is still no widespread charging infra. Oh sure, there are chargers. If you're lucky and your town is on a state highway there might be one or two chargers in the entire town — their purpose being so visitors don't become stranded.

   Outside of cities, they are not there in sufficient quantity for widespread adoption.

   The apartment problem has not been solved either, and people do not have the time in their lives to dedicate to charging at a shared public charger.

   Europe still loves its compact manual transmission cars; but what we may see is a transition away from diesel to petrol vehicles strictly for cost reasons.

   1. jareklupinski · 1790550341 · focus · HN ↗

      that's fine; the issues that electric cars are trying to solve in congested urban areas aren't as prevalent in rural areas, where diesel engines are still going to be doing most of the work anyway

      1. sippingabonedry · 1790550448 · focus · HN ↗

         That's fair; but articles like this tend to view reality as black or white, rather than the grey area it is.

         1. sanswork · 1790559601 · focus · HN ↗

            You are complaining about an article just talking about how sales are increasing as being too black and white while posting repeatedly trying to think of edge cases where EVs aren't a great option. It's like it's awesome your thinking experiment managed to come up with a situation where 0.001% of people can't use an EV but why do you think that is relevant or important to the actual article?
      2. mcv · 1790550759 · focus · HN ↗

         I would expect that in rural areas, it's much easier to simply charge at home. It's harder when you live in an apartment and park on the street.

         1. jareklupinski · 1790554753 · focus · HN ↗

            ideally an apartment would have underground parking with chargers where needed. but i don't get to design cities irl :)

            the distances traveled in rural areas, along with the power you need to get through that terrain, makes combustion a decision made from a different dimension. excited for solar tractors however!

            1. mcv · 1790577234 · focus · HN ↗

               My apartment was built before EVs were common and doesn't have charging in our underground parking. And it's apparently difficult to add (some neighbours looked into it).

               And do people in rural areas frequently need to drive 1000 km per day? EVs have had a pretty decent range these days. Not enough for long haul trucking, but good enough for most things short of that.

               But urban traffic is absolutely a perfect fit for electric micromobility vehicles. Less so for cars in general.

               1. jareklupinski · 1790594457 · focus · HN ↗

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