I agree. But even then, in a city, how many miles is anyone going to do in a single day, realistically? More than the range of their vehicle? Again, I think if people can charge overnight they will, and ubiquitous type 2 charging would probably keep most business reps and commercial vehicles going in a city.
In rural areas, obviously not, but again these people would be looking at DC chargers on motorways and trunk roads rather than town centres. I'm not exactly against DC chargers, but I think that in the longer term banks of the things in cities and towns might be a bit underutilised.
I mean, like tomorrow. I need to do about 125 miles in two trips. OK, the car can handle that even in the cold, especially since I can give it about three hours on the granny charger between the trips which should give me another 20 miles or so.
However I need it again first thing the following morning, to do maybe another 50-60 miles over the course of the day, and I will have barely nine hours of granny charging overnight. Should be OK, but I don't want to find myself in any trouble going home uphill late in the evening with an elderly passenger. So do I stop at a rapid charger on the way home tomorrow night to make sure?
Well that would work and maybe not take too long. But as it happens there are perfectly good destination chargers in the car park where the car will be left for maybe 4-5 hours tomorrow evening. At 40p a unit. I can be at 100% for my return journey with zero waiting around and cheaper even than the Tesla charger I'd go for on the way home. It's a no-brainer.
The more people get used to having chargers like that available, cheaper than the rapids, the less the rapids are going to be needed.
