>>1677197You're only half-right. While the infrastructure for fuel is still required, dedicated companies handle and maintain this. It also doesn't take hours to refuel.
For EVs, almost every parking space has to have it set up, which is a LOT of expense of materials, maintenance, and potential problems. Anyone without a dedicated garage or who uses their garage for other purposes will need to charge their car anywhere they can, keeping it "topped off." While you're at work, you keep your car charging. While you're in a store, plug it in.
This shit is also not simple technology, adding more strain on the need for techs.
>>1677114>The focus on individual transport ruined cities for a long timeIndividual transport is essential. If you cannot voluntarily LEAVE the city whenever you damn well please, then the city is acting as a prison.
>They are easily integrated into existing infrastructure and can be integrated into normal housing.It really isn't. Self-serve checkout, POS devices, and other tech is already finicky and breaks down a lot. Cities can't be assed to fill potholes or repaint worn-away markers. I've heard of problems with solar panel installations when towns chinked out on them with the cheapest contractors and they ended up needing replacing within 1 winter.
If you instead place the burden onto businesses, and the business folds, now the chargers are out of order. If you put the responsibility onto real estate companies then you start fucking with the whole economy. Not to mention that placing this as a requirement would just kill off lots of smaller businesses who can't afford the overhead, and prevent new ones from starting up.
Make it pay-per-charge? Great! You now have countless easily-hacked devices that take credit card info pebbled all over!
Not to mention even ones that are """Free""" would be massive fire hazards if they failed in the wrong way, or somehow had faults and broke the ground connection.
