If cars are stationary a lot, granny chargers would be more than enough for most dealers. Charge stock overnight. You can fill a lot of battery in 12 hours!
But cars that are serviced? Top them up for the customer, nice little extra touch? Maybe? As well as all the staff needing to charge their company/employee cars too.
Nissan dealers had the first dealer charging network I think. None of the others have really taken EVs seriously in the way Tesla did building worldwide charger coverage. I think VW etc paid into Ionity but that was because of dieselgate rather than a genuine belief.
Without the superchargers, Tesla had an existential threat. Other automakers are waiting for the market to roll out chargers, because can they afford otherwise?
Or they just thought it was up to others to do it. It was the undoing of Toyota and their Mirai. Had they coughed up for some hydrogen infrastructure in the same way Tesla did I'd think hydrogen cars would have had a lot more success.
Hydrogen always struck me as a hard sell because of fuelling. I wonder if it will find a home in haulage where fuelling can be more focussed strategically.
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If cars are stationary a lot, granny chargers would be more than enough for most dealers. Charge stock overnight. You can fill a lot of battery in 12 hours!
Chargers seem about as prevalent as EV techs…