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Wisconsin Public Radio reports
It's easy to forget how vast and complex the existing infrastructure for gas vehicles is. Not having that convenience is a problem the sellers and proponents of electric vehicles [have] been working to change.
Now, the Obama administration says it will significantly expand the nation's infrastructure for electric vehicles. The U.S. Department of Transportation is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors. Those vehicle routes dotted with charging stations are intended to cover 25,000 miles of highway in 35 states.
[...] The idea is to add thousands of electric charging stations around the country. In addition, states and local governments signed up to increase electric vehicles in their fleets.
[...] This all comes as consumers are turning away from sedans and moving toward SUVs and pickups. David Shepardson of Reuters looks at the problem of slow electric adoption by consumers.
[...] In August 2008, Obama set a goal of getting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015. Only about 520,000 electric cars have been sold in the United States since 2008, out of about 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads.
(Score: 2) by Username on Sunday November 06 2016, @10:03PM
Yeah, but CNG requires insane amounts of pressure, and they will explode [youtube.com] just [youtube.com] by [youtube.com] overfilling [youtube.com]. or just driving down the hiway. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday November 07 2016, @01:32PM
CNG requires insane amounts of pressure
No it most certainly does not. In the heavily monitored and regulated western world you can stuff a hell of a lot of energy into a very dangerous, perhaps acceptably dangerous, perhaps unacceptably dangerous, scuba tank like contraption but in the 3rd world where they have a somewhat more realistic view of reliability they use low pressure tanks (with resulting low range).
If you want to go 220 miles on a tank you need eye watering 3600 PSI. God help everyone nearby if that cooks off in a fire. If you're willing to drive 22 miles between fills then you need 360 PSI. That lowers the risk from requiring aerospace military aviation hydraulics techs to work on it, down to mere grease monkey traditional hydraulic break type PSI levels.
The world is full of trucks that go less than 22 miles round trip or less than 22 miles between fill up stations. Yes you need exotic crazy technology to fill up 3600 PSI tanks so there are not many of them. Yes 360 PSI is not a huge deal and you're not going to need the same level of exotic crazy technology.
Almost but not quite in the realm of propane tanks where every gas station I've seen around here sells propane tanks already.