Well in some cases, nothing but a fast charger will work. This week a friend and I want hiking at a trailhead >100 miles from home, and 6,000’ uphill. One of our cars was in the shop so I asked my friend to drive. Well, her EVs range wasn’t sufficient for the round trip, and the mountain town had no fast charger—and of course not even a slow one at the remote trailhead. So we ended up taking one of our ICE cars in the end.
Remote trailheads are a use case that I don’t see EVs serving for a long time—and of course bikes won’t work.
I would argue that Level 2 chargers are more convenient than Level 3 because that's how you can charge while you're at your destination. Level 3 is really only necessary for road trips...although can be used as a crutch to make up for lack of adequate Level 2 chargers (such as for some apartment dwellers...but in this case , L3 charging is FAR less convenient than L2 charging should be.
Well in some cases, nothing but a fast charger will work. This week a friend and I want hiking at a trailhead >100 miles from home, and 6,000’ uphill. One of our cars was in the shop so I asked my friend to drive. Well, her EVs range wasn’t sufficient for the round trip, and the mountain town had no fast charger—and of course not even a slow one at the remote trailhead. So we ended up taking one of our ICE cars in the end.
Remote trailheads are a use case that I don’t see EVs serving for a long time—and of course bikes won’t work.
I would argue that Level 2 chargers are more convenient than Level 3 because that's how you can charge while you're at your destination. Level 3 is really only necessary for road trips...although can be used as a crutch to make up for lack of adequate Level 2 chargers (such as for some apartment dwellers...but in this case , L3 charging is FAR less convenient than L2 charging should be.
We need a common e-bike charging interface. With that, e bikes could be lighter and cheaper, not needing nearly as much range.