There has been a lot of talk today about the executive orders of President Joe Biden on the first day. A long-promised EO paves the way for the mass adoption of electric vehicles. Joe has campaigned for a $ 5 billion plan to install half a million new EV charging stations by 2030. If that happens, it will certainly help alleviate remote anxiety and provide network consumers and manufacturers of cars, alike, to be able to rely on emission-free driving.
Of course, an executive order has no teeth without a budget to fund it, so it will need congressional support to do so. As one of the pillars of this administration’s plan for the future, electric vehicles and clean energy are likely to receive serious support from Dems in Congress and could show bipartisan support with the promise of new jobs. Biden’s plan envisages approximately 1 million new clean energy jobs created as a result.
In the United States right now, there are an estimated 111,000 gas stations. This number is smaller than I thought it would be, because gas stations are pretty much everywhere. Most gas stations have somewhere between 4 and 16 pumps, right? Our current EV charging infrastructure includes 28,726 individual stations, although only 4,336 of these stations include DC fast charging, which is required for long-distance travel. Of those fast DC stations, Tesla is only shy of 1/4 of them and cannot be used to charge any other non-Tesla.
The electric charging infrastructure is quite solid these days, as you can easily take an electric vehicle across the country or commute to almost any major city. I live in Nevada and there are large areas of the state that are inaccessible to electric vehicles. And for people who can’t afford to charge overnight, for example, anyone living in an apartment building or anyone who needs to park their car, it’s not a viable enough technology for daily commuting.
The major advantage that petrol has now is the ability to steer your vehicle in almost any direction and now you will get wherever you go, because there are gas stations practically everywhere. Even in the most remote parts of the country, you can count on the fact that there is a gas station close enough so that when the light is turned on with low fuel, you can reach the next one.
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As many have stated in the comments section of dozens of blogs I have written, the only thing preventing them from buying and being electric is the lack of charging infrastructure. Well, 46 calls you to shut up or shut up.
Since Biden’s plan doesn’t specify, I’ll guess that the 550,000 number means individual chargers rather than charging locations, because I’m not sure it would make sense to have five times as many places to connect as the fuel upstairs. So, we will assume that Biden is trying to match our gasoline infrastructure by installing 5 individual chargers in 110,000 different locations.
The current charging infrastructure is largely based on store and restaurant parking lots, which is good enough. As long as we don’t have to replace all our gas stations with charging stations, it will probably be fine. However, to make a lasting difference, Biden’s policy should focus on low-income neighborhoods, multi-family housing facilities, and parking lots for business and industrial parks. Anywhere anyway a car is forced to stand for hours anyway it is a good place to load. Equip street lamps with EV chargers. Equip parking meters with EV chargers.
One of the things I really love about driving an electric vehicle is that I rarely have to do my best to charge, because I can “fill up” overnight while I sleep. The only time I needed to use fast charging is during long trips. In this case, our interstate infrastructure is already quite well done by private companies. Given the opportunity, I would like to see Biden’s plan continue to expand charging infrastructure in rural communities and on smaller state highways.
In the current state, you can get most of the places with the existing EV infrastructure we have, but if you try to get to your cousin’s place in rural Idaho or North Dakota, you will have a hard time. We hope that by making electric car chargers as ubiquitous as gas stations, this problem of anxiety and use will disappear altogether. With more charging stations, we can reduces the so-called electronic deserts.
Virtually every car manufacturer is leaning sharply into an electric future in the next decade, this expansion of infrastructure will bring with it the demand needed to support not only the electric models received, but also further growth. Biden expressed his desire for the US to be competitive with China in the adoption of electric vehicles, largely with the support of many automakers with production facilities based here. China already has half a million public EV outlets available, so this expansion plan for 2030 would only catch us at China’s 2021 levels.
Obvious The best the plan is to force all Americans to live in mega-cities and invest in bullet train technology and sidewalks. But this is not a utopia, and people are not willing to give up personal mobility or the possibility of exacerbating climate problems by living in the wild-urban interface (this is WUI, look for it), so they have to play by the rules of the existing system. . If you absolutely have to keep your cars and trips ridiculously long, full of traffic, and the desire to cross the empty wild lands of this country by car, then by all means, do it in a clean way. And why not create a whole mess of jobs along the way?
When it comes to fulfilling our promise to increase our charging infrastructure over a decade, there is no killing, such as overload. Is 550,000 new chargers extraordinary and impossible? Not. Is it ambitious? Just the right amount.