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Today on Slashdot: hardware.slashdot.org: GM To Invest $2.2 Billion In First All-Electric Vehicle Plant, Create 2,200 Jobs (nbcnews.com) . I link to Slashdot for the comment section:

Charging Infrastructure (Score:4, Insightful)
by cnaumann ( 466328 ) on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:36AM (#59663552)

A $20k gasoline dispenser can pump 10 gallons of gas a minute. If that gasoline is going into a 30MPG car, the “recharging rate” is something like 18,000 mile sper hour.

A $150,000 fast DC charge (250kW) can briefly hit 1000MPH but more realistically charges at about 600MPH.

It will take up to 30 fast DC chargers to replace a single gas pump and cost 200x as much and may take 30 times the area. The equivelent of a six pump would approch $27 Million in cost and would require 2 acres of land.

Worse still, many users will charge at home and the fast charging infrastructure will only be needed during heavy trable times like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

All BEV manufacturers except Teslamare counting on third-parties to build, operate, and maintain this charging network.

I do not see how a third party could possibly afford to stay iin business charging BEVs.