No what I am saying is when you purchase a Ev most people use it for local driving say 95% of the time and home slow charging off peek works great for every one. Where we need fast charging is when we take long trips so stopping to charge for many hrs to complete your trip VS an additional 1/2hr fast charging is the missing link to make the distances viable.Gabz wrote: because only people who live near the CBD will drive EVs or treat them as private local gas stations. I'm not sure how there location has an effect on this expect there are more people to abuse the system. or maybe it's only city people abuse the system
unless you put the charger literally in the middle of nowhere then someone could take advantage.
If you have to drive 50km to stand at a fast charger for 30 min then return home with 50% soc and wast 1hrs driving and 30min charging total 1.5hrs just to get a free 1/2 a charge gain it kind of makes it pointless and people wont take advantage of it just because its free.
In the CBD if you can drop into the fast charger on the way home from work and top up the days consumption in 10 min without adding little to no extra km to your normal trip and only 10min of your time then there is a advantage do so if some one wants to take advantage of free charging when they could have just charged at home. There is no real inconvenience to them and they get free power. In the city's this can and does happen.
Sure a EV owner living in the the actual township of a small country town could take advantage of a fast charging station in the same way. The thing is its a numbers game there are less ev in the small towns first of all because of the distances usually traveled they are less popular (this would change with fast chargers) but in the CBD there is more likely potential for more ev owners within a few km of a fast charger just because of the population density. Using say a one in every one hundred people as a example who purchased a EV. Small town might have One owner but in the few surrounding suburbs of fast charger in the CBD could have 10 or 100 ev owners. (we could only wish in Australia)
Kurt