When they built the first roads, there were no queues of cars either, but now roads are congested at peak times, with hours of traffic jams each day. <Virtually no backups at all, Many of my Tesla friends have never experienced one.> When all cars are Tesla, lining up for their recharge on Thanksgiving, on a cloudy weekend when they didn't get a recharge at home from their photovoltaics, gasoline will be looking pretty good.
Eric, the proportion of Teslas is tiny and the profit margins are enormous, so it's easy to throw away a lot of money on a "free" supercharger network. But the land costs money and so does the equipment and so does the electricity, so it's not actually free, unlike the oxygen in the air which a car can suck in for no charge and it's available everywhere, in any amount.
Tesla is trying to solve the big problem of recharging by installing lots of "free" superchargers. But they can't install enough for everyone to get a freebie on a busy weekend when it's raining. They will have to do what electricity generators do which is introduce peak pricing to keep demand matched with supply. Or they could just leave everyone stewing in queues which is what happens in many marketing plans.
You failed to understand the point about CDMA breaching the laws of physics. Of course it doesn't, but back in the early 1990s, a Stanford professor, Lusignan, and others such as Bill Frezza did. They were wrong. Similarly, a 7SSS for cute little modular battteries does not breach the laws of physics.
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