Love it. Good to see Jay is getting #bikepilled (though I still haven't seen The Matrix so I'm not entirely sure what that means... or if it's even The Matrix). Good "tomato is a fruit" story you might appreciate: my Cuban immigrant friend saw a grocery circular or sale tag recently that said something like "all fruit, $4/pound" or whatever. He loads up on tomatoes and goes to the checkout and he's all "where's the discount?" and then they get into a whole discussion about whether tomato is a fruit or not. Good times.
I was most curious about the charging infrastructure, and how that correlates with the overall adoption, and which different patterns you see in how new chargers are deployed as usage grows. Like is there an adoption threshold where suddenly chargers were available in much more remote places, or did an intentional push to fill in charger network gaps lead to any surges in adoption?
Government funding for public charging stations and subsidies for private installation at residences and workplaces have played a big part. Policies vary by country, but one of the most interesting attempts at "filing in the gaps" is the Advenir program in France. specifically targeting installations at condos and parking facilities, and which apparently lets EV owners apply to have a public charging station installed by their local municipality within a half-kilometer radius of their location if one does not already exist.
Some additional details on incentives by country can be found here:
Love it. Good to see Jay is getting #bikepilled (though I still haven't seen The Matrix so I'm not entirely sure what that means... or if it's even The Matrix). Good "tomato is a fruit" story you might appreciate: my Cuban immigrant friend saw a grocery circular or sale tag recently that said something like "all fruit, $4/pound" or whatever. He loads up on tomatoes and goes to the checkout and he's all "where's the discount?" and then they get into a whole discussion about whether tomato is a fruit or not. Good times.
Great episode Jay! And a passable Brit accent too...
I was most curious about the charging infrastructure, and how that correlates with the overall adoption, and which different patterns you see in how new chargers are deployed as usage grows. Like is there an adoption threshold where suddenly chargers were available in much more remote places, or did an intentional push to fill in charger network gaps lead to any surges in adoption?
Government funding for public charging stations and subsidies for private installation at residences and workplaces have played a big part. Policies vary by country, but one of the most interesting attempts at "filing in the gaps" is the Advenir program in France. specifically targeting installations at condos and parking facilities, and which apparently lets EV owners apply to have a public charging station installed by their local municipality within a half-kilometer radius of their location if one does not already exist.
Some additional details on incentives by country can be found here:
- https://blog.evbox.com/ev-charging-infrastructure-incentives-eu
- https://blog.wallbox.com/ev-incentives-europe-guide/