Because not everyone can recharge it. Most of the people live outside the big cities, where there are few charging station (if any) or there is no way to recharge the car directly from your home.
we are talking about Europe here and not the US - the charging infrastructure in basically all of europe is fantastic by now, basically every supermarket parking lot has a fast charger by now …
Yes, and I suppose you are willing to lose an afternoon to go to a supermarket 30 km away to just recharge your car.
I have no doubt that in the cities it is true, but not everyone live in a city.
In fact about 60% of European people do not live in a big city, where a supermarket maybe is not even near.
that’s a completly rural area here in Austria and still there are charger everywhere - and I have to go shopping at least once a week anyway and the time I spend in the shop is enough to get the charge I need, there is no time lost there. In fact I would lose more time if I had to go to the gas station …
Outside big cities there are more people owning property who can charge at home. Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s mostly boomers who value the flexibility of driving over 1000km in a row who are still buying cars with combustion engines. Are they ever driving that far? No. But they could in some kind of arcane emergency.
Because not everyone can recharge it. Most of the people live outside the big cities, where there are few charging station (if any) or there is no way to recharge the car directly from your home.
we are talking about Europe here and not the US - the charging infrastructure in basically all of europe is fantastic by now, basically every supermarket parking lot has a fast charger by now …
Yes, and I suppose you are willing to lose an afternoon to go to a supermarket 30 km away to just recharge your car.
I have no doubt that in the cities it is true, but not everyone live in a city.
In fact about 60% of European people do not live in a big city, where a supermarket maybe is not even near.
This is a screenshot from EV Maps:
that’s a completly rural area here in Austria and still there are charger everywhere - and I have to go shopping at least once a week anyway and the time I spend in the shop is enough to get the charge I need, there is no time lost there. In fact I would lose more time if I had to go to the gas station …
In a rural area I am afraid that you would need the car more than the single time you go shopping every week.
Outside big cities there are more people owning property who can charge at home. Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s mostly boomers who value the flexibility of driving over 1000km in a row who are still buying cars with combustion engines. Are they ever driving that far? No. But they could in some kind of arcane emergency.