Goodbye, gas? The era of electric cars is coming faster than anyone thought.
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Classic Chevrolet Sugar Land sales consultant Edward Jackson Davis shows the battery level on the dash screen of a Chevrolet Bolt EV, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Sugar Land. The Bolt EV is a front-motor, five-door all-electric car.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Classic Chevrolet Sugar Land sales consultant Edward Jackson Davis takes a look under the hood of a Chevrolet Bolt EV, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Sugar Land. The Bolt EV is a front-motor, five-door all-electric car.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Study: Electric vehicles cannot succeed without nationwide fast-charging networks
Special to The Enterprise
Electric vehicles cannot succeed without developing a nationwide network of fast-charging networks in parallel with the cars. Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, like General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at UC Davis and Dartmouth College.
The researchers explain that big and traditional automakers have made exciting EVs but have essentially ignored the charging-station side of the equation. Meanwhile, Tesla worked both sides of the market by building a sufficiently wide network of high-speed charging stations before they sold too many cars. There are about 4,000 high-voltage super-fast charging stations in the U.S., and the majority of them are available only to Tesla vehicles.
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Study: EVs cannot succeed without developing parallel supercharging networks
Electric vehicles cannot succeed without developing a nationwide network of fast-charging networks in parallel with the cars. Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, such as General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College.
The researchers say that that while large, traditional automakers have developed some exciting EVs, they have essentially ignored the charging station side of the equation. Meanwhile, Tesla worked both sides of the market by building a sufficiently wide network of high-speed charging stations before they sold too many cars. There are about 4,000 high-voltage super-fast charging stations in the US, and the majority of them are available only to Tesla ve