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Cabel Sasser
@cabel.panic.com

society is so complex and everything is so interconnected. (yeah, i know, i'm a deep thinker.) for example. good EV charging infrastructure in the USA can't exist without social services, healthcare, drug treatment programs, living wages, and other steps to disincentivize selling scrap copper 🥲

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Erik Hanberg
@erikhanberg.bsky.social

In the EU, none of the charging stations have cables. People carry them in their cars. Which, if you think about it, makes a ton of sense. I don’t know how we ended up with this model.

Joel Crane
@potatofi.bsky.social

Smaller ~11 kW chargers are basically a power outlet where the driver provides a cable, but 22 kW up to 400 kW chargers have a permanently attached cable. Source: I've recently charged in both the Netherlands and Sweden, and regularly see charging infrastructure in Finland.

stonerl
@stonerl.bsky.social

Yeah, that‘s what most people forget when talking about saving the planet. W/o abolishing poverty and give everyone a decent standard of living, people are left behind. This manifest very clearly with EVs. Cars for people with money, 2/3 of society can’t afford. not only in the US.

Cristina Ramos
@saffroncr.bsky.social

Sadly that's something that happens everywhere. They also steal cables from train infrastructure which causes even more issues. And of course any construction site. Metal/copper theft is common all around the world.