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Top Five Reasons Electric Cars Don’t Get Consumers Fully Charged Up
The owners of the latest Chevy Volt race to plug in their vehicles to the 2 EV (Electric Vehicle) charging stations setup opposite to Renaissance Center headquarters of the legendary General Motors in Detroit on almost every weekday.
Although nearby parking structures boast of nearly 2 dozen identical charging outlets, the Renaissance Centre charging stations are regarded as the most appropriate choices for workers, possibly even the most admired EV charging units in the area. Recently, Ryndee Carney, a leading spokeswoman of GM, said that consumers need to reach the place as early as possible during the morning time in order to snag charging unit.
The yearning for electricity is to a certain extent very unique to inner city Detroit, which has an uneven figure of Chevrolet Volt owners. But, it certainly demonstrates problem that challenges EV owners in the nation, and is considerably decelerating the rate of electric vehicle adoption. Even though more and more stations come online each day, EV charging units arrangement in the United States is still lagging, and there is only small number of publicly available charging units across the nation.
As per the recent updates from Census Bureau, and Department of Energy, there are nearly 4,688 Electric Vehicle charging units in U.S. as compared to almost 129,000 gasoline stations. Here are details of the 5 major charging related problems that the automotive industry confronts presently.
Dueling Technology – Ford, GM, Chrysler, and the prominent European based carmakers support a quick charging technology known as J1772, whereas the Japan based carmakers back a standard technology called CHAdeMO. Industry onlookers observe the battle as identical to the debate that took place between Betamax, and VHS back during 1980s.
Few Public Chargers – The new Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt owners quite often become very fixated with locating charging units away from home. Most of the public destinations and workplaces don’t possess chargers.
Charging Takes Few Hours – By making use of a standard 120-V electrical outlet, the latest Volt EV requires whole night to get completely charged. Owners can also install a standard 240-V outlet, which precisely reduces the charging time considerably to almost half the total time.
Requirement of a Garage – One major restraint to EV adoption is the requirement of a garage, but most of the owners don’t own a garage.
Electricity Demands – Manufacturers observe EV as a latest source of lucrative business, but they would face huge issues, if every consumer instantly switch to EVs, and start charging their cars during the day-time, or hot summer months, when there is scarcity of electricity.
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