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Sniffing substations will solve 'leccy car charging woes, reckons upstart

ThatOne Silver badge

Electric cars are a rich man's problem. As people already pointed out, having one supposes you have a nice individual home with a driveway, and at work you can use the directors' parking space.

How is the average person who lives in a cramped European city and who parks his car (somewhere) in the streets, both at home and at work, supposed to charge it? Charging stations? Ridiculous, when electric cars become mandatory and there is a million of them in any bigger city, what are your chances of finding an empty slot for your car? At the time and location you need it?

All current (no pun intended) car charging solutions only work if electric cars remain a vanishingly small toy for upper-income people. They don't scale. Not as long as charging takes that long and needs to be done that often.

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