PG&E to build 25k charging stations in central/northern California

Sure it does. If you put most of them at people's offices, then it effectively doubles the potential commuting range for people. At my office we have 13 L2 chargers and 40-50 EVs for ~800 cars in total. There is easily 10,000 offices with hundreds of cars in the parking lot that could use 5 - 10 L2 chargers.

Of course all these chargers use power during the morning and then into prime time rather than at night. But I think that the thinking goes that seeing and having the chargers at work get people to investigate, then buy EVs and PHEVs...then charge mostly at home at night.

Mike

 

Spot on. With an abundant plethora of (available and affordable and working) L2s, L3 would become solely used for long distance trips and we wouldn't need quite as many of them (still significantly more than we have now).

 

If by "good stuff" you mean 25,000 more chargers, yes it's good in that it makes hydrogen cars in Cali that much more of a waste. I'd like to see 3/4 of those chargers be QC's. The Kia Soul EV can charge at 100kW's. On the low end of a charge, you could get 50 miles more range in what ... less than 10 minutes? yea !!! Obviously utility companies won't charge their self their own obscene fees for 50kW+ "demand fees" which are HUGE in Cali. But of course, that's what companies like Blink & chargepoint fear.
The commercial EVSE companies are protesting that utility companies want to enter the market. Some of them want you to sign petitions to keep the utilities out;
Petition - ChargePoint
Their fear stems from the notion that the utility companies already have a monopoly on electric power (controlling prices) that evse companies pay to the utilities. Thus EVSE companies claim they can easily be driven out of the market by utility companies . . . . . the lion's share of the State's population.
But it's NOT just central & northern CA . . . So Cal Edison has joined petitioning for them to be able to run charge stations. That's much of LA and OC counties.
On the other hand - a company like Blink SHOULD be run out of business for providing such crappy/unreliable units. They are often broken down - and even if units need a simple reset (which users can sometimes do their self by turning their breaker off then back on) - their crappy phone support folk don't seem to have the where withal to tell you to do that. So - iduno.
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