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Originally Posted by Iron Lung Jimmy

This is an unsolicited text I received a few months ago. This person is a millennial who is sales manager at a fairly large Ford dealership. He loves the EV Mustang and tried to convince me to get one... which I include to show lack of prejudice against EV's. Therefore I was kind of surprised to receive this...

I'll tell you what - I'm sitting through Electrification Training this morning.. my biggest take away: the Infrastructure sucks so hard I could not possibly justify a fully electric vehicle.

I mean, we all know it's not great... but when it's being 'sold' to you and novice salespeople can poke holes in EVERYTHING and the only response is "don't worry about that" you know it's a BIG problem.

So if this is the conclusion that a person who wants to love EV's comes to....

As with most things EV related, there is no one size fits all answer. Here a few studied facts…

• >85% of EV buyers are able to plug-in and charge at home. This means every morning they wake up with a “full tank”.
• Most EV owners experience single-day drives beyond the vehicle maximum range less than 5 times per year. This means there might be 5 times in the course of a year that they would need to charge somewhere other than home (long trips)
• In 2021 there were 940,000 private, public, and semi-public chargers in use in the US. By 2030 there will be about 15 million.

One of my employees lives in Houston and drives a Mach E. They have an ICE SUV in the garage too. On a daily basis, they pretty much compete as to who gets the Mach E for the day. On the other hand, they once drove the Mach E from Houston to Michigan (they’re both from Michigan). They won’t be doing that again for a while. They’ll be using the ICE SUV for long trips. Their issue driving the Mach E to Michigan was not so much the ability to find charging stations, but the condition of the chargers when they would get there. Those that weren’t broken were in use. Tesla doesn’t seem to have this problem with their Supercharger network. And now pretty much all the automakers offering EVs have signed on to start using the Tesla Supercharger network.

With chargers, it’s less an issue of how many, it’s more about where they are and whether they are properly maintained. With Ford, GM, and pretty much every other major OEM shifting over to the Tesla NCAS charging standard, that problem seems to be working itself out.