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Originally Posted by aerohead
Auto manufacturers likewise had no incentive to build and maintain road and highway infrastructure in 1896.Auto sales in 1896 were less than 1% of total transportation sales,and nobody was making money on them.
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Easy to predict history, and nearly impossible to predict the future. My assessment of charging infrastructure incentive is based on what's going on today, not 20 years into the future. I've got little chance of getting that one right.
Auto manufacturers still don't own petrol stations, so I don't know why they'd have an interest in charging stations. Petrol stations generally make very meager profit from the fuel itself, and similarly dispensing electricity isn't profitable.