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Japan Now Has More Electric Car Charging Spots Than Gas Stations

4 pointsby SimplyUselessabout 9 years ago

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grillvogelabout 9 years ago
&gt;Unlike the majority of gas stations in Japan however, the 40,000 electric car charging points quoted by Nissan includes ones in private homes, causing some critics to cry foul. After all, if a charging station is hidden in a privately-owned garage, it isn’t easily accessible to the public.<p>&gt;Yet while we understand that criticism — and it’s why we used an asterisk in our headline — the rise of charger-sharing sites like PlugShare.com means that more people than ever before are offering their private charging station for others to use, either as an altruistic gesture or for cold, hard cash.<p>oh wait its fucking nothing
sfifsabout 9 years ago
Apples vs. Oranges.<p>An electric car requires hours to charge vs. a minute to fill gas. So you need several hundred times as many Electric charging points OR a comparable number of battery change stations to be remotely comparable assuming service as a metric