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Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8M cars in Germany, Berlin says

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Re: Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8M cars in Germany, Berlin says

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Globally? Electric cars will never reach that much consumers in Asia as it has in US. Very few people in Shanghai/Seoul/Tokyo own private garage to charge cars in over night. And this is why Toyota/Hyundai are stubbornly pushing Hydrogen cars.

The idea that people need private garages to charge their cars seems silly. You can have plugs in public garages or even regular parking spaces, with cables you securely attach to both ends (to prevent energy theft) and a payment system. It's not that much more complex than a parking meter.

What about people who never park in a parking garage? Who's going to pay for installing/maintaining charging stations?

I would like to be proven wrong, but in markets with low level of private garage ownership, pure EV won't succeed.

Re: Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8M cars in Germany, Berlin says

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That's as much a technology problem as anything else. If you line the streets with chargers, then have the car and charger interface with each other to report which car is actually charging, you can bill the owner. Whether or not the areas cars are parked have the appropriate wiring to facilitate chargers is another problem entirely. And quite frankly, I'm still skeptical our electric grid can handle everyone pluggin…

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518066/could-electric-c... > Researchers ... have calculated that the grid has enough excess capacity to support over 150 million battery-powered cars, or about 75 percent of the cars, pickups, and SUVs on the road in the United States.

That's US. Not same situation in other places.
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