Supercharger progress

Wow! 600 superchargers in the area equivalent size of California. And with so much uninhabitable mountainous area ** that means much more charging per inhabited square miles.

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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20591-5_14#:~:text=Only%20about%2033%20%25%20of%20Japan's,it%20has%20many%20mountainous%20areas.

 

Travel review from a BEV forum:

"-Charging cost. This is ridiculous in my honest opinion. We chose to drive our Tesla across country hoping it would save a little bit on fuel cost (diesel is about $5/gal where I live and superchargers are like $0.33/kwh). Once we get past Idaho, SC costs raged from $0.37/kwh to $0.48/kwh. The whole trip used 3.1mwh and cost me about $1300 in electricity. But, also as I got past Idaho, cost of gas and diesel fell significantly. The cheapest we saw gas was at buc-ees in NE TN. Gas was just over $2/gal and diesel was about $2.30/gal (or $1.67/gal gas $2.06/gal diesel if you bought a car wash) and the average cost of diesel through the US was about $3/gal. MY F-350 at its worst of 18 mpg when not towing over 7000 miles results in 390 gals of diesel, it probably would have used closer to 325-350 gals of diesel for the whole trip. At an average cost of $3/gal, it means I spent MORE to drive my Tesla as compared to my F-350 which is about twice the size (long bed crew cab) and weighs almost 2,000lbs more than the CT. The higher cost and the longer wait to charge will kill the potential of any mass adoption for EVs outside of commuting."

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/seattle-to-charelston-sc-and-back-road-trip-in-cybertruck.24846/

 

people who try to save money driving cars are entertaining

 

trying to read the graph, does it show about 20k superchargers in the last year or so?

 

About as funny to me as people betting on the latest market trends, especially the winners stories.

 

This isn't news. Fast DC chargers cost more than gas because they don't have other revenue streams like gas stations. With most miles being fueled by home charging for many, the fuel costs still end up favoring the EV.

 

as long as we keep subsidizing oil, the progress will be slower. but it's a double edged sword. oil has many benefits.

 

That graph looks far more like a Powerpoint concept image than actual data. It is quite difficult to find real world data looking that smooth.

 

Which filter will show me a historical graph of SuperCharger counts by year?