(01-04-2020, 04:54 AM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote:

(12-12-2019, 04:38 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: I expect ten years from now charging infrastructure will be so pervasive that the idea of not having access to charging will be laughable. Putting charging facilities in every parking lot will be a profit vector that didn't exist before, but it's coming.

Yeah but how many slots do you give to electrics, and if the chargers are too close to the store people will start parking in them with non electrics. You can claim that you tow the cars, but that seems like a bad practice if you want to keep customers.

In ten years there will likely be well over ten million electric vehicles in use between Tesla and all the other brands, and charging providers will want to get their infrastructure deployed to get a share of the market serving them. I don't expect whole parking lots taken up by dedicated charger spots, but having several in every large merchant area is likely. By that I mean you will probably find 10+ charging spots at any Publix or Walmart or Target. I also doubt there will be people getting towed for parking in them often because they'll probably not be right next to the entrance like handicapped spots and parking isn't that hard to find for people that can walk a few yards. We'll see though.

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