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Uncle Sam's boffins stumble upon battery storage holy grail

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: @uncle sjohie (and others)

"Many people already go to the supermarket, or workplace, or retail park, anyway."

And most have two, maybe as many as three charging points and that;s often only because they were installed for free and make good PR. I wonder what capacity cable was installed for those two or three charging points? Can they add more or will more new cables need to be layed throughout the car parking areas?

It's a nice idea, but I can see it being a lot more expensive than most of us expect, especially if the take up of electric cars outstrips the installation of charging points. There's two at the local council Civic Centre. Whenever I'm there, their own pool cars are on charge but the points are signed as public charging points. They don't appear to be planning for any extras "because costs and cutbacks"

I do hope it all works out eventually but I foresee much pain ahead with range anxiety being added to with "where the fuck is there an available charge point" anxiety.

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