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In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries
That's a drop except in Bulgaria, where it's the same as last year.
And if those 10+ year old diesels are replacing 15, 20+ year old diesels it's still an improvement.
https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...
In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries
Chinese EVs are making rapid inroads in the balkans, lots of new brands
Has the EV charging infrastructure kept pace with the EV adoption?
At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and there is also a lot of street charging stations. But it's still cheapest to charge at home.
Has the EV charging infrastructure kept pace with the EV adoption?
No. And it's not the number of charging stations, it's the general shittiness of those. You never know how much you will pay per kWh, there are apps, networks, roaming agreements, cards, getting through this mess and starting to charge is always a challenge and takes a significant time (sometimes comparable to charging time!). You also get gouged on pricing, companies clearly set it so that the cost of 100km is compa…
I've heard the subsidies are the reason why there's so many shitty charging stations. People build them, collect the subsidies, and never actually care about running it well. A silver lining is at least the space is reserved once we decide to get serious about fixing this as a society.
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Most people charge EVs at home most of the time.
In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings
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Most people charge EVs at home most of the time.
In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings
In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries
New diesel vehicles are 6.4% of sales in Romania, 15.4% in Bulgaria, 9.5% in Hungary, 12.2% in Croatia. That's a drop except in Bulgaria, where it's the same as last year. And if those 10+ year old diesels are replacing 15, 20+ year old diesels it's still an improvement. https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...
Cars under VAG sell TDI engines with a small battery and call it a hybrid.
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In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings
EV adoption is not uniformly distributed among the population.
Has the EV charging infrastructure kept pace with the EV adoption?
At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and there is also a lot of street charging stations. But it's still cheapest to charge at home.
But increasingly it's becoming a problem that those cables have nowhere to run to as the grid isn't capable of serving them all. There might be excess generation but unless you have the capacity in the wires to get it where it's needed you're still stuck.
Especially in dense old cuties where the grid was built when the goal was to power a bunch of incandescent light bulbs. Not all the appliances we have today let alone cars with a battery capacity equal to a household's weekly usage of electricity when the grid was designed.