Bowe: Consumer Perception of Charging Matters More Than Target Ratios
Cassie Bowe · Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles? · Aug 11, 2022 · at 9:11
Cassie Bowe explains why theoretical charger-to-vehicle ratios are secondary to consumer sentiment when driving EV adoption.
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“Because whether or not there's some magic number for charging infrastructure that in reality would make this whole system work, it doesn't matter what that number is. It matters what the consumer perception is.”
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