EV drivers in California switch to gasoline

Aftab Ahmed

Islamabad: At a time, when Pakistan has laid an ambitious plan to introduce electric vehicles, around 50 percent of EV drivers in California have switched to gasoline.

That may not be good news for the EV industry that is growing now. The government of Pakistan had also approved an EV policy that offers incentives to manufacture Electric Vehicles in the country.

California has faced an issue of charging that forced the drivers to switch to gasoline fuel to avoid it.
California has around 60,000 public EV chargers. By 2025, it hopes to have 250,000, which will include 10,000 so-called fast chargers to refuel a battery electric vehicle to 80 percent full in around 30 minutes. This will be sufficient to back 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles.

Nearly a fifth of all EV drivers in California have switched to gasoline because charging their electric cars was a problem, according to a new study that plans to dominate the market.

A University of California study published in Nature Energy looked at drivers who bought an EV between 2012 and 2018 and found that 18 percent of those who bought a battery-powered electric car turned to gasoline-powered cars.

As the 20% plugin was hybrid, the main issue for survey respondents through buyer respondents that the authors do was the time of compensation.

EV charging techniques rarely make headlines, and that’s because they’re a bit of a hassle for EV proponents. If you buy an EV that you use every day, you may not be able to charge it at home. It is because domestic outlets provide 120 volts of electricity, which meets the above charging rate.

Public charging points, by contrast, charge 240 volts, which means charging faster. Then there are Tesla superchargers, which deliver 480 volts. Even with a supercharger, it will take an hour for an EV batsman to “fill up”. It only takes a few minutes to fill a gasoline-powered car.

Moreover, according to a University of California study, two-thirds of EV drivers did not use public charging stations, although the reasons for this have not been clarified.

Such studies are not good for the future of EV. The Biden administration – and the state of California – have big plans to adopt EVs, as do all major carmakers. But nature, like study, finds energy that suggests that success may not be as certain as it should be. Car dealers are already familiar with this: A recent Wall Street Journal article states that EVs still account for a small minority of total car sales, citing a car dealer.