The Great Electric Car Quandary: How to Build a Charging Infrastructure Before Demand Grows: Scientific American

Which came first: the electric car or the infrastructure needed to power the electric car? That’s one of the key questions that carmakers will have to answer if they ever hope to fill up the freeways with their plug-in vehicles…

But perhaps the biggest question for electric vehicles (and hydrogen cars as well) relates to infrastructure. How and where will drivers be able to recharge their all-important lithium-ion batteries, particularly if those drivers venture far from home? In most cases, this means they plan to drive farther than the 160 to 240 kilometers they’ll get from a fully charged battery…

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