France's green credentials are questionable. They have nuclear power, but also a lot of nuclear waste, and accidents. And now all those plants are reaching end of life, after being extended and them finding previously undetected flaws in the reactor vessels. So they either need to build a lot more, or transition to renewables.

They will build some because they need a nuclear industry to support their weapons programmes and nuclear naval vessels. But if they want it to be affordable, most of it will have to be renewables.

It depends how busy it is. If people are waiting, then yes. A lot of places have some slower chargers as well as the very fast ones, so if you need time you can always use one of those. They are often a little cheaper too.

It's the same as with petrol pumps. It's bad form to go do your shopping and finish your burger if other people are waiting.

Range anxiety is a real thing, and people massively over-estimate distances. By a factor of 2-2.5, in my experience.

When I've done extended trips away from home, I haven't had any issues. Just charge when I happen to be somewhere that has a charger.

Looking at Alma, right now there are a fair few rapid chargers in the range 150-350kW, and most of them are unoccupied. One has a fault reported. There are also lots of rapid chargers in nearby towns and along the major highways.

Care to name one?

Yeah, plenty of space. If you look at the typical sites at service areas, they just place them between parking spaces, and there is plenty of room. Of course more sites are appearing regularly too, typically not far off a junction on the motorway. Tesla went for those sites first, so often you can save a bit of money by taking a sub 1 minute detour.

It's basically the same as in a fossil, the only planning you might do is where is best to get refreshments.

This is so trivial to disprove. Here's just chargers on the Electroverse network: https://electroverse.com/commu...

Click on them for realtime occupancy data. Right now, most of them are free everywhere I checked. And those are just the Electroverse ones, it doesn't even include networks not on that scheme like Tesla.

For terrace houses the government has now said that pavement gullies are the way to go and councils must allow them. It's not idea, things rarely are in the UK, but it's not nearly as bad as you make out.

Thing is, even if it all fake, the solution is to make our countries and the world as a whole better. China generated 500TWh more electricity last year, equal to the total consumed by Germany that year, and a lot more than the de-industrialized UK. Most of it is renewable too, with coal use on the decline.

Think about what that means for their economy. Abundant, cheap energy. Massive opportunities for growth in high demand sectors. Huge export opportunities for both generation technology and for low carbon goods. Health benefits for employees, making them more productive.

Idiots will point and laugh at how stupid the Chinese are for believing all this climate change nonsense, while their economies decline and their jobs get moved to cleaner, more productive countries.

Whatever, your NOAA link does show an acceleration. Shitty journalism rounding numbers or whatever aside, something does seem to have changed.

Zero time spent planning. Get in car and drive until I need to stop for comfort, plug in while I get a coffee and use the loo, carry on driving. Last time I had to wait for a charger was in 2015, every motorway service area has loads of them, and in the unlikely event that they were all in use I'd just carry on to the next one, or use the sat nav to find a nearby alternative. Google Maps shows how many chargers are in use as live data so you can see if the one you are headed for is free, and these days it's extremely rare that I see them over 50% in use.

As I said, join the 21st century and there is no problem.

Here's an example of doing your trip, without destination charging: https://abetterrouteplanner.co...

Your infrastructure is a joke, but even then it's fine. There is a medium speed 100kW charger, with dining and other facilities. Only one though, which is kind of a joke. Or rather, one at that location, there are others nearby. Why does Canada have such crap roads? At least its cheap I suppose.

Journeys in my EV are stress free and easy. It's only people who don't own one, or who live in some third world shithole without any functional electricity infrastructure, who think otherwise.

Anyway, even if these guy's lies were true, they aren't even that impressive. BYD has been shipping cars with a 5 minute recharge time for a while, and the MW class chargers to go with them.

It's short sighted too. If they installed a lot of batteries and renewables at the site, at least they would have something of value when the AI bubble bursts and the rest of the site gets scrapped.

Indeed, game studios know about licencing issues and these days often add a "streaming friendly" mode which replaces any licensed music and visuals so that streamers don't get copyright claims.

Also the licence must include an earliest end date, before which the servers cannot be shut off without triggering a full refund.