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when it comes to fully electric vehicles
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one of the biggest concerns people have
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is their range as well as the ability to
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charge them in a timely manner the way
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you solve that is that you have a really
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robust infrastructure that people can
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rely on and though some charging
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stations do offer hyper fast 350
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kilovolt charging perception doesn't
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meet reality for some drivers they said
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this a super fast charging do you think
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it uh charges fast enough uh no so it
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advertises up to 350 uh I've never seen
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it go really past 150 and even that's
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rare and then there's the availability
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of charging stations in places like this
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there's not a lot of them or places like
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this where they're clustered all
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together what areas of the country right
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now are doing better than others when it
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infrastructure yeah you know we see
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States like California cities like San
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Francisco San Diego and Los Angeles are
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right at the top of the list in terms of
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how many Chargers they've got uh Believe
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It or Not Vermont actually as a state
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has more Chargers per resident
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surprisingly good charging
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infrastructures popping up in places you
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might not expect States like Alabama or
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Missouri or Wyoming or South Dakota that
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are growing faster than States like
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California and Oregon because they've
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got so little there I don't live in a
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single family home I live in a condo so
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these meanwhile the federal government
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ising trying to build out a network of
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charging stations across the country
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starting with major highways and
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interstates the government will probably
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work with private companies and I try to
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incentivize them to build them and what
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about the charging units themselves it
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can cost up to a million dollars just to
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install one of these these level three
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fast chargers they require robust source
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of energy and a robust pipeline to get
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that energy into your car from the from
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the charging unit and it's a lot of
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money and it's a lot of kind of Hardware
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work and tearing things up to put those
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in and that's why it costs so much in
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the past few months automakers have
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backed off on their commitments to make
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their entire fleets EVs and there's good
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reason we just need to be realistic
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about the variations in driver needs and
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Driver kind of uh situations and realize
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that EVS make absolute sense for some
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and absolutely no sense for others for
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many others a gas electric hybrid is the
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best option with high mileage low
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emissions and no worries about the lack
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of availability of a charging
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infrastructure working for you I'm the
