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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: LLCF who wrote (67447)10/22/2013 2:55:10 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Comparing the first rollout of gasoline filling stations to trying to rollout electrict recharging stations now.

The charging stations have the advantage of an existing electrical grid.

The gasoline stations had the advantage of dense energy storage (gasoline is much denser in energy that the very best batteries even being imagined today let alone ones that are already mass produced).

The very first cars or trucks traveling long distances probably had to carry extra fuel, and also refill in less convenient ways (not a gas pump, but some primitive pump or siphon and a gas tank somewhere).

Then you would get some service stations, which outside of built up areas might be a hundred miles apart, but if you knew where they where you could drive very long distances without running out.

Cars can go hundreds of miles, hundreds of miles more if you have an extra large tank or carry some extra supply.

Electric cars (esp, ones that don't have extremely expensive lithium ion batteries, and esp in weather extremes) have much less range (and also less ability to carry an extra supply).

The main advantage to gas stations proliferating for long distance trips is that by the time they did that you already had a lot of cars used locally. This doesn't address the earlier local proliferation in built up areas, which you now have with electric cars but to a lesser degree. At first people would likely refill from their own supply, or maybe from the person they bought the car from, with some primitive refueling setup, before there was anything that looks like the gas stations we see today.
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