I feel like this is just the effect of a new and growing industry. Gas stations are free to set their own pricing, but if it’s more than a few cents off the next nearest place they won’t get any sales. Reliability is also only an issue if there’s few stations, if there’s a station on every block, like we have gas stations now, then people will just go to the next nearest station, which gives companies a pretty good incentive to keep the chargers working.
I’m also okay with allowing different charging structures, but again I think that settles itself when availability increases. If charging per joule is cheaper for the consumer than charging per minute then that’s the station they’ll choose. Really, we just need to make sure it doesn’t end up an oligarchy like the cell networks where everybody just colludes to keep prices and margins high. Or put in some high marginal corporate tax rates to disincentivize those large margins.
Yup, we’re all so spoiled by a hundred years of momentum in fossil fuel delivery. I remember my great uncle telling stories from the 70’s about getting stuck at his in-laws farmhouse for three days because the gas station in town was out of gas, and he didn’t have enough in the tank to make it the 70km to the next town with a gas station, and even if they did, they weren’t sure they had any gas either.
I feel like this is just the effect of a new and growing industry. Gas stations are free to set their own pricing, but if it’s more than a few cents off the next nearest place they won’t get any sales. Reliability is also only an issue if there’s few stations, if there’s a station on every block, like we have gas stations now, then people will just go to the next nearest station, which gives companies a pretty good incentive to keep the chargers working.
I’m also okay with allowing different charging structures, but again I think that settles itself when availability increases. If charging per joule is cheaper for the consumer than charging per minute then that’s the station they’ll choose. Really, we just need to make sure it doesn’t end up an oligarchy like the cell networks where everybody just colludes to keep prices and margins high. Or put in some high marginal corporate tax rates to disincentivize those large margins.
Yup, we’re all so spoiled by a hundred years of momentum in fossil fuel delivery. I remember my great uncle telling stories from the 70’s about getting stuck at his in-laws farmhouse for three days because the gas station in town was out of gas, and he didn’t have enough in the tank to make it the 70km to the next town with a gas station, and even if they did, they weren’t sure they had any gas either.