I don't think you're actually listening to what I'm saying, because you seem to be arguing against something other than my actual position.
Yes, we have a national network of chargers. Yes, it works, and you can travel cross country. I never claimed otherwise, and in fact acknowledged as much from the start.
But it's only got the capacity to handle small numbers of long distance travelers. It cannot easily scale to large numbers of such travelers. I think we won't scale it up to large numbers of long distance travelers, and you haven't provided any reason to think we will. Because frankly, it's not even worth doing, certainly not now, not likely for a long time.
It would need to be, since gas pumps provide an order of magnitude faster throughput. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. If you're installing a bunch of high speed chargers, you need a **** ton more electrical power transmission to these stations, which isn't cheap. And you need a much bigger land footprint too, which is cheap in SOME places but certainly not all.
And that's not even touching on the problem of increasing total electric generation capacity. Since long distance driving isn't the best use case for electric, we're going to have a LOT more electric cars for short distance driving before we get a lot more for long distance. And we will need a lot more generation capacity to feed that need. That's a really big infrastructure challenge which we haven't even really started on, and it's going to be higher priority. We might be able to do it. I hope we do. But if we aren't even really talking about it, why do you think there's going to be any national effort to tackle a relatively unimportant edge case?
