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Actually, the infrastructure is already there and most service stations could migrate over very easily. However, most of the charging stations I've seen are free or are part of a benefit. Service stations aren't going to like that price.

Not for the quick charge idea they have, which appears to require stuff be built underground.

Then you're left with a real chicken-or-egg type problem where nobody wants the cars because these stations aren't around and no station owner is going to spend $80,000 or whatever to put in this battery-swap bay for customers that probably don't exist yet.


That's why I'm saying I don't see electric going anywhere unless some new "wow" technology shows up (so maybe next year, maybe not until the year 2541). There's been some interesting sounding supercapacitor work. We need something like that -- something that can hold enough charge to power a car for a few hundred miles but also be really quick to recharge. Batteries are too slow.

Or they realize they can use quantum entanglement to drive your car around while it's plugged in.