The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem

Holy crap this is so unrealistic. You don't need a supercharger within 4 minutes. People can charge at home overnight. You only need superchargers for road trips which don't happen very often. Also you don't need to fill up so fast, people can take a rest.

That thing in the car is NOT an inverter. It's a rectifier.

It would be interesting to look at this with today's knowledge

Most people live in apartments, where are they going to charge these stupid cars?

This aged poorly

Why isn't reliability a considering factor?

Also The resale value of an ev is suuuuuuper low.

No one wonders the amount of power lost when transferring from generators to that much charging stations as the author of the video suggested? Power loss increases as transferring distance increases, more charging stations longer the combined distances, hence higher amount of power loss during transmission. Are EVs really as “green” as they promoted?

that' s AC ADAPTER, not inverter !

The problem of the number of charging stations can be solved in days if their plugs are standardized. In this way each company can build a small number of charging stations that everybody could use and then the cost would not be a problem.

I know this video is a couple of years old now, but electric car sales depend a lot on where you live. 79% of new cars sold in Norway in 2022 were electric cars and 21% off all cars in Norway are electric.

Even with the charging infrastructure, I'm not buying an ev, they aren't worth it, they aren't better. Non of the new "gimmicks" that evs have I want in a vehicle. There is absolutely zero draw to them for me.

You can make a motor last 100,000+ miles easy, will a ev battery still hold as much energy at that time. Or will the battery wear, so not only will you have to replace the motors, you will have to replace the battery too.

I can't believe everyone thinks batteries are the future. Lol. You'd think it would be a better form of gas. Something we made that burns clean and has a lot more energy in it than gas. A new invention, not using something that has been around for decades. (Batteries)

The major problem I have with them is governments involved in trying to force evs down my throat. There is a reason why every manufacturer is going all in on ev and it's not because of consumer need, it's government intervention.

They aren't better than real cars, and won't be for a while.

But if batteries are the future (kinda seems like the past to me), looks like lineman will be a pretty good career choice.

hmm what if we increase each EV capacity to increase transport efficiency, also we can put wires over roads, so those vehicles are always connected to the grid, thus eliminating charging and battery problem as well as increasing efficiency
and if you feel very efficient you can put them on steel wheels and steel roads, because this will have less friction and you can also have it standing on guideways because turning with little friction is hard
god if only we had such technologies

I loved this video! Just wanted to point out that the government doesn’t build gas stations. Still agree that they could build chargers though.

2 years later.
And EV is still shit.

I road-trip a lot. Have a 2022 Explorer and it already has 35k miles on it. It’s also my daily driver at the moment since I had to sell my other gas car. So for me to even think about buying an EV I would have to keep a gas car as well. I would charge the EV overnight on a 120 volt outlet and use it as a daily driver to and from work and keep the explorer as the family hauler and road trip car. I would only purchase an EV if I could charge at home. If I lived in an apartment with no EV chargers and had to drive somewhere and wait 30 min to 1 hour to fast charge there’s no way I’d purchase an EV. Plus constantly super charging a battery can degrade the battery rapidly. Now every house won’t be able to support a level 2 charger safely. So if you are able to install 1 at your home it could cost thousands to get your home up to code to allow a 240v charger.

To:dr electric cars aren't there

Our son drove across Australia. It took him just over 3 days. Cant do this on an EV.

I don’t want to sit at a charging station longer than at a gas station so I guess I will not be driving an EV any time soon.

I live in Florida. Storm evacuation is why I won't get an ev until I can confidently drive one for ten or more hours without needing to recharge.

Lol algorithm to punish us 😅

Are there any cars that are hybrid and bio fuel?

Why would anyone want to drive through nebraska

Worth mentioning, tesla won the plug war

This is exactly the problem with having electric commercial vehicles. A truck that weighs 10x more than a car needs an enormous battery to charge.

It's Salina with a long I, not "Saleena", ha ha. Also, for the first time, you're way off base. Most ev drivers charge at home while they're sleeping. I live an hour from the closest grocery store, and even then my Bolt with 250 mile range is enough for all but road trips. Road trips are 1 in a 100 times of car driving. In a year of ownership, I've only needed to use a dc fast charger 2-3 times, even living a rural area. In a city, it would be never. Range and charging stations are literally only for road trips. Easy enough, and cheaper, to just have a separate gas car for this, or deal with the charge time. It's funny how this is only an issue to those who haven't owned an ev yet.

What is stopping from getting an EV is battery replacement. The cost is so high

Sorry, there are no charging problem
But yes; we need to build out the grid

This didn't age that great lol

Well done - great content

JR

Could you show about other countries other than the US and New York?

EV is a joke. Its overpriced and not practical.

The future battery technology isn’t Lithium Ion.
Mining Lithium is not sustainable.

We’re too obsessed with fossil fuels

Charging is a shitshow compared to filling a tank.

Also to consider in todays world, the Charging stations aren't expanding, alot of charging stations have closed down due to Tesla's failure to pay the hosts to rent the property they are on, thus further reducing the viability of electric vehicles. Mind you, I want to see electric cars but you're right, we need the infrastructure.

NACS won the format war

The solution is to get rid of car ownership and promote long haul public transit. In this way we don’t need long range EV’s.

If we do not commit an incredible amount of money on electrical power generation, distribution and delivery infrastructure, an EV in every garage is never going to be feasible. There are roughly 250 million vehicles registeerd for road use in the USA. Even operating half this number of EVs here would be disastrous for our power grid...and governments NEVER do a good job at planning ANYTHING - they almost always react to a challenge long after it is in a full meltdown. There are other things working against this "tipping point". For example, single-family homes are being driven further and further from the grasp of the middle-class - the class that typically drives the demand curve for ANY product. This means more are forced to rent apartments or town homes / condos, which will add another level of complexity when it comes to home charging - the single most effective option to charge an EV.

Oh, and an inverter converts DC power to AC power.

You have totally missed the behavior change in consumers. Your gas station is now your home, not so with combustion. That means every day you start at 100 and the need for fast charging is generally limited to long road trips.

Great analysis, thanks

I think you (and the general pubic) misunderstand how charging works with an electric vehicle. You think charging your car is like refueling a gas car - you have to go somewhere and do it. And wait while it happens. That's not how electric cars work unless you're trying to take a long range road trip. With an Electric car you drive where ever you need to drive that day you come home and you plug in. It doesn't matter how long its going to take because you've gone inside to make dinner or watch tv or whatever. The car will be full when you go out to use it tomorrow.

This was posted 2 years ago, and the same flawed conclusions are still flawed, while the same EV shortcoming are yet to be overcome, specifically because of the federal government's meddling in the free market.
I disagree with the premise the current EV range is acceptable, and also the concept presented of charging to 50% every 100 miles. On a long trip I refuse to stop for 30 minutes every 300 miles, and certainly not for 15 minutes every 100 miles. Yes, I have to stop to refuel my internal combustion engine vehicle every 300 miles, but that's a 5-10 minute stop before I'm back on the road. That additional 20 minutes for an EV adds of to a lot of extra time to my trip, and I refuse to accept that. The solution is either 10 minute recharge time (preferably 5 minutes) to 100% (not 75%), or a fast battery swap that takes 10 minutes or less. Neither of these is going to happen in the next 10 years, so count me out.
And then there's the power grid problem. I live in north Texas, and over the past several weeks the string of 105+ degree days has maxed the power grid. We're being asked to voluntarily cut back electricity consumption. What if all of us (or even just 50% of us) were driving EV's?
And I heartily disagree with the conclusion that it's the federal government's job to create the necessary charging infrastructure, something borne out by the fact that none of the flaws in this video have been resolved, or even seen significant progress.
EV manufacturer's know it's in their best interests to come up with a standard for charger ports so they can all take advantage of any fast-charging station across the country, rather than each of them investing $250,000 or more for thousands of stations. EV's have become a microcosm of all that's wrong with a government dictating to manufacturers and consumers. Left to them, producers and consumers would soon enough sort out these EV issues in due time, and at much less expense for all.

I lack a garage or dedicated parking spot at my house, I will never be able to charge an EV at home, and so I will never own one.

Sam, I'm going to say this probably will need a re-do in the near future as North America converges on NACS

It is so strange how people do not get that the used car market is insanely important and a powerful driver of world economics. Most products are manufactured in poor countries, which will never be able to afford electric cars. Be it the charging infrastructure, or the constant access to new batteries which is needed. For this reason alone, all less developed countries will forever stick to gas engines. And that's it - there is nothing more to discuss. Unless those countries become magically developed and industrial over night, the EV-revolution simply cannot happen, as we still are dependent of the globalized economy, which includes these countries, which need gas powered cars.

So if no one wants to buy your old EV (in contrast to gas powered cars), your EV becomes insanely expensive to maintain.

It is range plus charging!!! The range figures are always, if anything, not down to earth figures… by far. You get the angst back fast when on a climb on a hot road seeing all your carefully planning go out of the window. Not to speak you drive mostly always slowly like you were on your ICE with the gas light on 😂.
Edit: Also they are expensive… car and accessories if having a place to charge at home especially if aids to buy are less and less on certain places.
Oh and fast charging is still slow… the lines waiting to charge… idk can’t fathom the needed infrastructure to be profitable.

My opinion is the market will bounce back towards phev until charging infrastructure is installed.