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EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

79 points · 150 comments · blondie9x

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. eqvinox · 1790572219 · focus · HN ↗
  > manual transmission
  I thought this was a German (D/A/CH) fetish, is it all of Europe?
  1. danaris · 1790575915 · focus · HN ↗
    Sadly, it is—I recently moved to Ireland from the US, and it's annoyingly difficult to find an automatic transmission here. (Fortunately, I'm not currently in the market for a car; I live and work in Dublin, where the public transport is fantastic by American standards, and passable by European.)
    tpm · 1790595700 · focus · HN ↗
    It's difficult to find used cars with automatic transmission, I assume? Because most new cars being hybrids or EVs already come with one.

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