Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
Would love to hear fast how charging stations will scale in a way that beats the current price and speed of filling up a car with gasoline.<p>I mean, even in a small town with, say, three gas stations, there are peak times when all the spots are taken. Average fueling time is probably a few minutes.<p>How to switch that to an all-electric system?<p>+ build a significantly higher number of fast electric charges than there are gas pumps. But apparently fast charging stations are rather expensive to build, and that&#x27;s reflected in prices-- they are higher than current gas prices. There&#x27;s also the significant increase in the time to fuel the vehicle compared to gas, and that&#x27;s not going to change any time soon.<p>+ ramp up at-home charging as well as &quot;at-business&quot; charging for things like landscapers&#x2F;etc. who use a lot of vehicles. But if you do this <i>at scale</i> electricity costs go through the roof and you&#x27;re back to the same pricing problem as above.<p>I&#x27;m just thinking of this in terms of a kind of soft-realtime system. You&#x27;ve got something like &quot;blocks&quot; of vehicles all of which need to be fueled on deadlines which can generally get met currently. If there&#x27;s a massive switch to EV I don&#x27;t see how those deadlines get met without an enormous increase in charging prices. And without massive subsidies there&#x27;s no way to build the infrastructure needed to meet the deadlines.<p>(And let&#x27;s just assume zero risk of a fast-charger monopoly or cartel...)