Michael Ludvig
1 min readApr 30, 2021

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I've never figured out how is this supposed to work for people living in apartment blocks and parking their cars on the road overnight.

Another issue is that now when just a tiny number of cars is EV it doesn't really affect the power network. Once (if) all the cars are EV and if everyone decides to charge overnight (because over the day they use the car) there will be a massive strain on the power distribution network which was never designed to support such a load in residential areas.

Super ultra mega fast charging that doesn't take more time than refuelling a car today may be an answer but again - you need the power network to support that. Unlike with an underground tank full or petrol or hydrogen it's quite difficult to efficiently store electricity at the charging station for later use.

By the way 10 years ago you could have had pretty much the same objections against EVs: too expensive, limited range, missing infrastructure, not enough charging stations, etc.

Time will tell but I wouldn't discard hydrogen just yet.

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Michael Ludvig
Michael Ludvig

Written by Michael Ludvig

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